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."
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This guy is quickly becoming the representative of the Wild-Eyed Democrats--but there are so many of them.
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".
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.
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.
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.
To Mr. Berg: See what Mr. Cheney said to Leahy, apply to yourself.
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.
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.
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.
The Hippies and all other 1960s radicals killed decorum. "Hey man, question authority man! Hey man, question THE MAN, man!"
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.
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.
Why does anyone care what the Korean World Workers' Party thinks?
This guy should go meet some terrorists and discuss have to create pieces.
His wife appears to also be an extreme radical. They feed on each other - typical codependent relationship of 1960s highchair tyrants.
Berg married a Moslem girl!
"Highchair tyrants" - I like that LOL. the only problem is, when I saw it I immediately thought og Little Tom Daschle!
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