Pa. family angry with American government over son's brutal death

pennlive ^ | 5/11/2004, 2:34 p.m. ET | By JASON STRAZIUSO

[LibWhacker]

"He was a Bush supporter," Berg said.

I don't know what to believe, except I ain't buying what this POS says. If his son was detained for a couple of weeks by American authorities, he was probably up to no good. But the gloves have to come off and, yes, we had the gloves on at Abu Ghraib.

[weegee]

Skimming this article it doesn't pass the smell test. Why was he detained?

His dad admits to opposing the war and here he is attacking the administration over his son's death.

[Petronski]

Multiple 'INTERNAL SERVER ERROR' messages/hiccups on my end.

[kcvl]

Mansoor Ijaz just said on Fox News that Abu Zarqawi would do this to anyone of us if they got the chance!

[lelio]

I'm not getting this time line either. From what I read he was

• Detained by Iraqi police
• Turned over to US officials
• Dad complains he hasn't heard from him in a while
• He's released after 13 days (around May 6th)
• ??? was murdered

So he was killed between May 6th and today (May 11th)?

[Victoria]

The young man was in Iraq trying to run a company, for which Mr. Berg is the business manager. He knows why his son was there. He died because extremists killed him. It's a result of the culture of hate that is bred in that part of the world.

[zeugma]

13 days?

Something very interesting behind that I'll bet.

[SoggyBottomBoy]

...get the widow on the set

[TomGuy]

Berg family via AP Nick Berg in a family photo.

The whiningLibs are responsible for this man's horrific death!

[TexKat]

How sad. My condolences to the family. Another American family has lost a son in a most horrible death. May God be with them.

[LibWhacker]

Tryin' one more time . . . Lots of hiccups on my end, too . . . Sorry 'bout the multiple posts!

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

In other words, there is *NO* reason to believe *ANYTHING* this scumbag says

Do you call everyone who disagrees with you a "scumbag"? It is you who sounds like a scumbag for slamming a father who just learns his son has been not only MURDERED, but beheaded.

[RGSpincich]

Michael Berg said he blamed the U.S. government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death. He said if his son hadn't been detained for so long, he might have been able to leave the country before the violence worsened.

He had no job. Probably detained because they couldn't verify why he was there. Uh, Dad, ol' pal the violence was always there. Your boy took his chances. Maybe he liked being close to the action and was trying to get on with one of the private contractors.

[Howlin]

Well, here we go.

In case you all don't know it, this father is a member in good standing of A.N.S.W.E.R.

[kcvl]

Nick Berg in a family photo.

[Flipyaforreal]

Adam, right there with ya, same here and you put it well. Thanks.

[MEG33]

It is horrific. I don't like the attitude but they are grieving and I am so sorry they have lost their son to these monsters.

[Yardstick]

And, like a typical anti-war type, Berg blames the Bush Admin instead of the Islamifascists who killed his son. And that's why the Islamifascists think they can win this war - because there are so many like Berg who will blame everyone but the terrorists.

Exactly right.

I know an Iranian women who protested against the Shah, shoulder-to-shoulder with the Islamic radicals in the streets of Tehran back in 1978/79. She was a young, thoroughly-westernized leftist from a wealthy Persian family, but she hated the "CIA-backed" Shah government which had made their wealthy western lifestyle possible. Pretty soon, the Shah was out and the Ayatollah was in -- she and her lefty pals got their wish. But the family wound up having to flee Iran (they came here to the US) because of all the retrograde persecutions that came with the Ayatollah.

But guess who she's angry at -- why, American of course (where she is once again living a life of wealth and freedom) and the CIA. The Ayatollah and his islamic goonsquads get a pass.

The Left is unreformable. They will always give in to the urge to focus their blame on America. They're just (mis)wired that way.

[Howlin]

It's a result of the culture of hate that is bred in that part of the world.

The father has done his share of fanning that hatred right here in this country.

[fontoon]

Your right, this guy is and will always be a leftist, but this is not the time to critize his emotionally driven comments.