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Either this guy hated his son with a passion unknown throughout humanity, or he simply went insane and this sad shell of a man is all that remains of poor Mr. Berg. Anyone who says anything other than that his is a day to celebrate should be forced to watch and listen to the tape of his murder. I have neither seen nor heard the tape. I have only read that he was aware of what was going on and that he let out a great and terrible wail. Even the imagined sound of his terror and woe is putting me on the verge of tears. I want to cry like I did when I discovered that the man in front of me laying facedown in a pool of blood on the side of the road during my family's bike trip around Mackinac Island, when I was 7, when all of my aunts and uncles and cousins that I never get to see were there for a once-in-a-generation family reunion, and everything had been absolutely perfect, was my Grandfather. He died, and we buried him under a crooked tree.

edit: "this is a day to celebrate", not "his". Talking about the wail Mr. Berg's son made while his head was being sawed off, not any wail Zarqawi made. If Mr. Berg has seen the video and heard the wail his son made, and he is still saying this, then he either hated his son entirely, is a tool beyond all imagining beyond that of even Cindy Shehaan, or is completely insane and/or in complete denial of just what it was that Zarqawi did. The only other possibility is that he never watched the video and has never heard the wail his son made.

"I want to cry like I did when I discovered that the man in front of me laying facedown in a pool of blood on the side of the road during my family's bike trip around Mackinac Island, when I was 7, when all of my aunts and uncles and cousins that I never get to see were there for a once-in-a-generation family reunion, and everything had been absolutely perfect, was my Grandfather. He died, and we buried him under a crooked tree."

I am so sorry for the loss you suffered as a child. I gather he was hit by a car while biking? For a young child of 7 to witness that is very tramatic.

or "...he simply went insane and this sad shell of a man is all that remains of poor Mr. Berg."

or he was already a deranged far-left bozo, which apparently is the case. I understand that he was to the left of Michael Moore-on even before his son's hideous murder. Whatever the origins, he's certifiable. I heard a clip of him on the radio saying that he wanted a captured al-Zarqawi to spend the rest of his life doing "community service" in a hospital to "regain his humanity".... yeah, and if al-Whacko proved to be like that "Doctor" in Mosul who was murdering all the patients, which is a certainty if Michael Berg's plan could have been enacted, then Michael Berg would cry a few crocodile tears for all the dead patients and their families.

We have an interesting phenomenon in this country, in which many young people like Nick Berg and Casey Sheehan somehow turned out far saner and far more rational than some of their whack-job warmed-over-hippie parents ala Michael Berg and Cindy Sheehan.