Mercy, activism sustain man who lost son in Iraq

Knight Ridder News Service ^ | 5/9/5 | Sandy Bauers

[VRWCmember]

Michael Berg has forgiven his son's killers.

If I remember correctly, he never blamed the actual killers but rather blames Bush for his son's death.

[2banana]

He demonstrated before the national political conventions and at President Bush's inauguration. He was outside Fort Bragg, N.C., on the second anniversary of the Iraq war.

Your 15 minutes of fame are over - get used to it. You used you son's brutal death at the hands of islamic terrorists to make a political point against the President. Go home and be quiet.

[Bosco]

Have Berg's killers asked for forgiveness? That's usually how it works: the offending party asks for forgiveness, and the offended party then gives/does not give forgiveness.

[wideawake]

I'm glad that he still has the strength of character to undermine our efforts in Iraq, legitimize the insurgents, and do his utmost to place our troops lives in danger.

If you want to forgive your sons' murderers - fine.

If you want to demonize the men who tried to rescue him, you can go to hell.

[boofus]

Despicable. Doesn't blame the murderers but a 3rd party. I have no sympathy for him or his treehugging headless son.

[wolf2005]

Didn't this piece call for a barf alert?

[End Times Sentinel]

This whack job again?

 

Clearly, a re-posting of "I knew The Berg Family" is in order again...

 

I knew the Berg family and Nick was one of the finest people you'd ever meet.  He was a devout Jew who deeply loved his country and wanted to share its greatness with the rest of the world.

i remember the first time nick and i met it was 1984 and we were on a second grade field trip to see the crayola factory.  nick's father, michael was one of the chaperones.  i can vividly recall michael on the bus ride there:  for some reason, he'd opened his lunch despite the fact that it was only 9:15 in the morning and carefully lined up each item on the seatback in front of him- carrot sticks, celery sticks, a fruit cup, yougurt, cottage cheese, and a juice box.  sure enough the bus hit a bump and his lunch went flying everywhere.  "G-D DAMNIT!!!  THIS IS ALL RONALD REAGAN'S FAULT!!! HE F-CKING KILLED MY LUNCH!!!  M-THER F-CKING A$$H-LE" he yelled before the faculty orgainzer could restrain him.

several years later, in 7th grade, we were all assigned a project in which we needed to participate in a religious ceremony that was different from our own.  since the class was overwhelmingly catholic, nick graciously offered to let his classmates come, one at a time, to his home for a friday night seder.  as michael berg attempted to light the prayer candles and the match didn't strike on his first attempt he became enraged "M-THER F-CKER ROT IN HELL YOU SON OF A B-TCH GEORGE BUSH!!!  YOU KILLED MY G-D DAMN MATCH!!!"  he then picked up the candle, hurled it through a sliding glass door and as he ran out of the room was heard to yell "I WILL NOT BE A SLAVE TO GEORGE BUSH'S MATCH MAKING CABAL!!!"  nick appologized for his father's bizzare behaviour and led  his family and i through a fascinating cermemony.  as we finished our meal, michael berg emerged when nick's mother called out that we were having pudding. 

michael sat back at the head of the table and mrs. berg tucked a napkin into his shirt collar.  michael began to fumble with the release ring on the top of the pudding container, twisting it in every manner and even wedging his spoon in there.  slowly, a gutteral rumbling emerged from his throat and a string of profanities that could have only been conjured in the very pits of hell came from his mouth.  i was stunned and frightened to say the least and my fear only escalated as a foam began to froth up from his mouth and down his chin.  i honestly feared for my life as he took the can of pudding and began smashing it violently against his forhead releasing a thick foam of chocolate and blood.  "G-D DAMN YOU NEWT GINGRICH!!!  THIS IS ALL PART OF YOUR M-THER F-CKING PUDDING CONSPIRACY AND I WILL NOT BE YOUR PAWN!!!  NOW, YOU PATRIOTIC BASTARD, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE... I WILL KILL YOU!!! he screeched as i cowered under the table. 

it wasn't until nick's mom called out "Who want's chocolate pudding with MED-I-CINE in it?" and i could see from under the table that michael berg had been released from a fit of St. Vitus dance that i ran like a shot out of the home never to return.

 

Somehow, i have to speculate that an upbringing like this may have led nick to think he was a little less suceptable to danger than others would.  just speculation.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[bboop]

That's right. Now he has forgiven Bush for killing his son. Big of him.

[SmithL]

Clearly, a re-posting was in order, because I hadn't seen that before. Now, about the coffee in my keyboard, . . .

[silverleaf]

Sorry, grieving father or not, this man is an aging flower child dweeb.

The best way to make anything positive come from his naive clueless son's murder is to win the war, not to walk away from it and hand Iraq over to Nick's butchers. I notice he's in front of the Chester County courthouse and on the peace rally circuit through various DEMOCRACIES, not over there in Iraq placing his tender body in harm's way in the interest of peace. There's someone else's' kid now, over there. Fighting to win. Against enemies being encouraged by (perhaps funding the activities of) Mr Berg, professional peace activist.

D'OH!

[pa mom]

This guy was an activist before his son was killed.

He defiles his son's memory.

[Gator101]

But he also thought about how Nick's killers said his death was retaliation for the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Uh, OK. Then couldn't they have just put panties on Nick's head and called it even? But, hey...everything is good now because Nick's Dad forgave them. (sarcasm)

[drpix]

"Every day, everywhere, Michael Berg wears his uniform: jeans, an antiwar T-shirt, and the same antiwar button he has worn since the day Nick died. It says, "Stop the War on Iraq."

MORE MISLEADING MSM PROPAGANDA: "Father" Michael Berg was an antiwar activist long before his son was captured and before he was beheaded. He's merely wearing the same antiwar buttons & t-shirts and spitting the same dribble. The only thing new for Michael Berg is that he gets to use the additional celebrity from that terrorist atrocity for own personal political ends.

[SueRae]

I can't believe that our local paper had his story running for three days in a row, only to be picked up by CNN. This guy is a local crackpot. His son did not share his father's peacenik views. And somehow, The president is responsible for his son's death? I guess if I go into North Philly to stroll atound and get mugged, I can blame the mayor? B.S., total, utter B.S.

Keep undermining the good work that has been done Mr. Berg.

[baseballmom]

Lordy, he seems to have anger issues.

[Niteranger68]

When this murder happened, I remembered reading something that indicated Nick Berg (the son) was a supporter of President Bush and that he thought Iraq held good business opportunities for him. Does anyone else remember this? Could it be that the father is really angry at his son?

[DTogo]

Yeah, this is all George Bush's fault (** !! WARNING !! ** Graphic images of how Nick Berg was found.) No one to blame here but Islamo Fascist scum.

[Enchante]

"... only it would be an "exchange people" program. Every year, families from across America would trade places with families from around the globe."

"We would all get to know each other a lot better," Berg said, "and get to see that we're all the same."


Oh, yeah, we're "all the same" as deranged Islamo-fascists who behead innocent people.... and allowing the 9/11 hijack murderers to live and study in Germany, the USA, etc. really showed THEM that "we're all the same." One of the most idiotic and myopic cliches of the left involves the idea that bringing Islamo-fascists to the west will somehow humanize them - quite a few of the worsts terrorists and ideologues of terrorism have been people who spent years in the west and their rage at wicked infidels just grew and grew.

[rogue yam]

One man's mercy and activism is another man's capitulation and treason.