Posted on 06/29/2004 7:44:52 AM PDT by Ironfocus
London - The father of a US civilian beheaded in Iraq dismissed as an illusion trick the handover of power to an Iraqi interim administration as he joined anti-war campaigners on a visit to London to Tuesday.
"This transfer of power is nothing more than another nut and shell game of the Bush and Blair coalition" Michael Berg, 59, said of Monday's surprise handover two days earlier than planned.
"We know that the Iraqi people have not had an election yet and so we do not have a democracy over there, we just have a dictatorship of Bush and Blair," he said at a press conference for the Stop The War Coalition, in London.
Berg's son, Nick, 26, who ran his own communications business, was murdered by Iraqi insurgents last month, after being kidnapped in Baghdad.
Three days after his headless body was discovered, a video tape of the execution was posted on a website linked to al-Qaeda, leading to worldwide condemnation.
Berg, wearing a T-shirt inscribed with the name of an anti-war website (VoteNoWar.org), will join British anti-war demonstrators outside the Houses of Parliament later on Tuesday to demand coalition troops come home.
"Bush told us we had to go to war because Iraq played a part in the destruction of the twin towers, because Saddam Hussein had WMD (weapons of mass destruction), because there were connections between him and al-Qaeda", he said.
All that was false, "it was just greed," he said.
The removal of Saddam's regime had not brought stability to Iraq and "11 000 plus Iraqi citizens have been killed," Berg said. "Each one of them is as affected as I was."
The President didn't say it, but it is beginning to look like he should have.
Saddam and Al Qaeda have a history as long as AQ has been around. His little rat claw-prints are all over it, according to Laurie Mylroie.
That is indeed sad, in a heart rending way.
I'd like to buy a vowel, Alex. A 'u'.
We won't talk about his son's death but we will quote him at every turn. Hmmm...
Perhaps someone has already posted this comment, and if so, I'll be doing it again:
Useful idiot.
The guy is a little bitter I'd guess.
Soon to be appearing in F 9/12...
A_R
Why pray tell do you think we care about Michael Berg's opinion on this, or for that matter, anything else?
Remember when the father of one of the 9/11 hijackers kept giving press conferences in Egypt to say that his son was alive and well and not a terrorist? Berg is rapidly becoming that guy.
Apparently they wrong Berg lost his head.....
I can see now why Hugh Hewitt talks of the "fever swamp" of the looney left. These people are beyond saving, and are probably a danger to themselves and others, and should not be given sharp objects.
The wrong person was beheaded...that is for sure.
According to a Gallop poll last week, 80% of Iraqis disagree with Mr. Berg.
Berg is intelligent--double digit IQ.
Gorellum's latest rant.............
"His wife appears to also be an extreme radical. They feed on each other - typical codependent relationship of 1960s highchair tyrants."
Yikes! Well, good thing they are older and can't reproduce again (OUCH! I sound really mean, but I'm still glad).
All the Mooreons are outraged!
Give me one reason I should give a rat's patootie what Michael Berg thinks about ANYthing?
Ever wonder why the people who never have anything good to say are always Leftists/Democrats/Communists?
I DO
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