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Berg calls US Iraqi handover a 'sham'
News24

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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: handover; iraq; michaelberg
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To: Ironfocus

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81 posted on 06/29/2004 8:21:53 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution ("American islamocommunists" are not Americans. They live in some 'other America' & must b destroyed)
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To: Ironfocus

This guy is quickly becoming the representative of the Wild-Eyed Democrats--but there are so many of them.


82 posted on 06/29/2004 8:23:12 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Lazamataz

This guy is a lunatic.
Dear Sir,

I am a lunatic, and on behalf of lunatics everywhere, I object in the strongest possible terms to being compared to Michael Berg.

I expect an immediate retraction.

Also, I want slippery wigs on grocery bananas to vibrate and flash, just like the man who I call Mr. Winkles who follows me from the milk well uptown.
Yours,

Lazamataz.

"I expect an immediate retraction."


NOT A CHANCE.

Now keep your eyes on those "bananas".


83 posted on 06/29/2004 8:24:22 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: marty60
This guys opinion rates long article. Why?

Amazing, isn't it? Sarin shells are found, and the media barely registers a peep. Connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam are everywhere, and the media ignores it completely. But some totally insignificant commie nutjob spouting off about the power transfer gets a long article.

84 posted on 06/29/2004 8:25:02 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Phantom Lord

I still am open to the possibility that it was the senior Berg's own dealings with International ANSWER, Move On, the Red Mafiya, and, the Ba'athist support network here in the USA, which may have allowed the Fedayeen to know about Nick and to target him in Iraq.


85 posted on 06/29/2004 8:25:16 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: Ironfocus

Daddy Berg is trying to be 'relevant.' He thinks he has some annointed duty. His 15 minutes came, and instead of using them productively, he chose to use them to blast a third party that had no connection to his son or his son's plight.

Now, his 15 minutes are gone.


86 posted on 06/29/2004 8:26:00 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Ironfocus

To Mr. Berg: See what Mr. Cheney said to Leahy, apply to yourself.


87 posted on 06/29/2004 8:26:36 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Ironfocus
11 000 plus Iraqi citizens have been killed," Berg said.

Well heck, that's a lot better than the 50,000 or so kids dying due to "containment" and the U.N.'s oil for food program, at least according to the U.N. By that measure, the invasion has saved more than 40,000 lives already.

88 posted on 06/29/2004 8:28:23 AM PDT by XJarhead
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To: Ironfocus
When it becomes public that his son, Nick, was one of Moore's disciples' trying to get footage for Moore's Fockumentary, Mr. Berg will have more than just egg on his face. He will be outed as one of the left's shams.
89 posted on 06/29/2004 8:28:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Ironfocus

He hates Bush more than than he hates those who murdered his son, and he hates Bush more than he loved his son. What a shame.


90 posted on 06/29/2004 8:29:28 AM PDT by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: Lazamataz

This may not be completely out there. Berg is part of International ANSWER, Move On and other subversive groups. He is known to have had dealings with Iraqis who were living in Philly and who were part of the Red Mafiya crack vial operation. And his sister lived in Iraq. The connections are apparent. Perhaps his did not consciously set up his son, but negligently I believe he did.


91 posted on 06/29/2004 8:29:42 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: yoe

The Hippies and all other 1960s radicals killed decorum. "Hey man, question authority man! Hey man, question THE MAN, man!"


92 posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:18 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: AngieGOP
"What and give up his 15 minutes of FAME?"

I think this guy HATED his own son - hated his guts. The kid supposedly believed in the effort to free Iraq. Daddy may have been a lotus-bearing, card-carrying lib from the old days, I don't know. He sure acts the part. Just spit on his son's grave - day after day - cause his son was brutally murdered and isn't around to set it right. It's a shame. And it's really shameful behavior.

93 posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:27 AM PDT by sevry
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To: sheik yerbouty

One night when he is grieving for his son, in his heart of hearts he will realize that his own leftist America-hating caused his son to go to Iraq and to die there. But like any liberal, it will be some else that MADE him hate America, so therefore it won't be his fault.


94 posted on 06/29/2004 8:32:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Ironfocus

Why does anyone care what the Korean World Workers' Party thinks?


95 posted on 06/29/2004 8:32:44 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Ironfocus

This guy should go meet some terrorists and discuss have to create pieces.


96 posted on 06/29/2004 8:33:04 AM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1

His wife appears to also be an extreme radical. They feed on each other - typical codependent relationship of 1960s highchair tyrants.


97 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:00 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: Ironfocus
I'm not exactly sure how "Father of man massacred by terrorists" qualifies this guy to hold forth on important geopolitical issues of the day.

I'm even more uncertain what kind of mental defective would
blame the president instead of the murdering thugs that killed his son. Sounds like he has "spain-itis".
98 posted on 06/29/2004 8:34:28 AM PDT by smonk
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To: nyconse

Berg married a Moslem girl!


99 posted on 06/29/2004 8:35:02 AM PDT by philosofy123
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To: GOP_1900AD
typical codependent relationship of 1960s highchair tyrants

"Highchair tyrants" - I like that LOL. the only problem is, when I saw it I immediately thought og Little Tom Daschle!

100 posted on 06/29/2004 8:37:49 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Custer was the first white man to wear an Arrow Shirt out West)
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