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2004-05-21 Fifth Column

Dad: 'George Bush never looked into Nick's (Bergs) eyes '

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Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-05-21 17:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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My son, Nick, was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know; no, the kindest, gentlest human being I have ever known. He quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun. Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed, and still need, to tell the world about him.

Sounds like things were pretty mixed up around the Berg family.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-21 7:12:42 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:12:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 There is a line one crosses even if you give him space as a "grieving father". This moron has crossed it.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-21 7:13:20 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:13:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 crossed it? I'm sorry he ever procreated...what a zero.

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-21 7:14:30 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:14:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Agreed, Ed. I sympathize for his loss, as I mourn for all the innocent dead, but to blame Bush for the actions of the Islamists is like blaming the supplier when some guy just took the last copy of a book I wanted at Borders. Or blaming the guy who shoots the burglar in self-defense when it was the burglar who broke into the house in the first place.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-21 7:15:40 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:15:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bush might not have looked int Nick Berg's eyes, but the bastards who sawed his head off surely did.

Posted by docob 2004-05-21 7:16:53 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:16:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The idiocy of this father obviously led to the ignorant naivete of his son. More's the pity.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-05-21 7:18:12 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:18:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Nick didn't deserve a father like this. No one does.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-21 7:18:21 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:18:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 What an asshole.

The Isamofacists murdered his son in cold blood on Video. But that is ok (after all they are muslims so its A-OK - just ask the media).

But Bush is responsible for his son, of his own free will, ignoring U.S. warnings to leave Iraq, decided to wander around and got himself killed.

This asshole needs a swift kick in the ass and to grow-the-fuck-up.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-21 7:27:30 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:27:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The guy needs to be ignored. The media is just using him as a useful idiot. For whatever reason, Nick was in the wrong place at the wrong time. His death will serve as a graphic warning as to what type of people the civilized world is up against. I hope to God that we heed the warning and act upon it before agonizing deaths like Nick Berg's become commonplace in the West.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-21 7:32:36 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:32:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The guy needs to be ignored. The media is just using him as a useful idiot. For whatever reason, Nick was in the wrong place at the wrong time. His death will serve as a graphic warning as to what type of people the civilized world is up against. I hope to God that we heed the warning and act upon it before agonizing deaths like Nick Berg's become commonplace in the West.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-21 7:32:46 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:32:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess Daddy is going through the blame and anger phase all at the same time. Too bad the press wants to capitalize on his mourning.

Posted by B 2004-05-21 7:34:11 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:34:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 It's the John Walsh Syndrome.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-21 7:37:51 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:37:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 What's the John Walsh Syndrome??

Posted by Rafael 2004-05-21 7:43:55 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:43:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 John Walsh: America's Most Wanted - his son was kidnapped and killed - that was his motivation to do the show - unfortunately Father Berg doesn't have both feet in reality, and from appearances and anecdotes, never did

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-21 7:47:28 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:47:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 John Walsh's Son Adam (small child) was kidnapped and murdered. He wasn't too proportional, but at least he started a foundation, and with others has promoted the Amber Alert system.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-21 7:49:15 PM|| 2004-05-21 7:49:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I think daddy Berg could justify this whole thing, in his own twisted mind, if he'd only look at Nick's death as a "post-natal" abortion.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-05-21 8:02:46 PM|| 2004-05-21 8:02:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 The guy needs to be ignored. The media is just using him as a useful idiot. For whatever reason, Nick was in the wrong place at the wrong time. His death will serve as a graphic warning as to what type of people the civilized world is up against. I hope to God that we heed the warning and act upon it before agonizing deaths like Nick Berg's become commonplace in the West.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-21 8:19:49 PM|| 2004-05-21 8:19:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 An even sadder thing is Bush probably grieves more for his son than his disillusioned father who has hung his hat on International ANSWER as the solution to all of our problems.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-05-21 8:56:14 PM|| 2004-05-21 8:56:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I will forgive anything a Father says in expressing his grief in the loss of a son regardless of the circumstance. He is sadly and pathetically mistaken, but his pain is unbearable. I can't even fathom his pain, and hope that I never have to.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-05-21 9:32:19 PM|| 2004-05-21 9:32:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 He has public grace period, but has chosen to use it to further his political goals rather than address the obvious cause: Islamofascist killers. RULE #22: NO GRACE PERIOD FOR ASSHOLE STUPIDITY

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-21 9:39:35 PM|| 2004-05-21 9:39:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#21
Think if your son had his barbaric murder filmed to be shown to the whole world. Berg's father was a brainwashed liberal long before Nick Berg ever thought of departing for Iraq, according to the press. In the father's sadness he only knows one method of lashing out for the death of his son.

This is the same misguided tactic leftists used regarding Spetember 11th, blame Bush, not Atta and his band of high-jacking monsters.

A savage, cold blooded member of the Islamic death cult is the enemy, not the President.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-21 10:19:32 PM|| [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133085/posts] 2004-05-21 10:19:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Actually, only Nick Berg sent Nick Berg to Iraq. Seems like the Military offered to get him home again but he walked away. I suppose if Nick Berg had been run over by a taxicab in London or a rickshaw in Shanghai it would still be Bush's fault.

Dear Mr. Berg Senior, being an idiot is not the Administration's responsibility. Living alone in a warzone with no support or protection is idiotic.

Posted by john 2004-05-21 10:30:30 PM|| 2004-05-21 10:30:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 This guy is being used, as AP and others point out. It's got to be truly terrible to have your child murdered, not to mention how it happened and becoming an automatic replay 2-3 hundred times a day. I feel sorry for the man - no matter how demented and foolish he may be. I'll reserve my thoughts of the kid. The dad is just about the saddest sack I guess I've ever heard of - in all respects.

Posted by .com 2004-05-21 10:37:04 PM|| 2004-05-21 10:37:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 "He quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun."

-maybe if he learned to use one he wouldn't of gotten his head chopped off. (I know, that was in poor taste)

-If something like that happened to my boy I'd prolly plant myself. (Right after I jumped a plane to Baghdad Intl, bought $2,500 worth of weapons at Abu's local black market and started whacking fuckers in Najaf.) But john's right, Nick Berg was a 26 year old man, old enough to be accountable for his actions. If he got offered a ride home or was told to amscray and decided against it - nothing we can do for him. May God rest is soul.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-05-21 10:59:31 PM|| 2004-05-21 10:59:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Sorry for your loss Mr Berg, but you, sir, are a f**kwit.

"I am sure that the one who wielded the knife felt Nick's breath on his hand and knew that he had a real human being there. I am sure that the others looked into my son's eyes and got at least a glimmer of what the rest of the world sees."

They showed no more concern for him than does an exterminator show for roaches. IF anything, they actively hated him for what he was, and what he stood for.

No, they did nto see what you pretend and delude yourself into imagining, Mr Berg. They saw a Jew. A Khefir. And American, a capitalist who was proving thier backward culture wrong by making the country work. To them he was an enemy, a sub human beast who was less than cattle to him. And they slaughtered him without mercy, pity or even a second thought, as they are directed to do in the Koran and by their culture of Wahabbi Islamacism.

And now you participate furhter in the bloody ritual by splashing around in the blood of your son hoping you can splash some on the current administration. You are dishonoring your son and elevating his killers to make political points. You, sir, are disgusting, and undeserving of any pity the public may have had for you.

Shame on you Mr Berg - you are a vile wretch, and deserve the pain you are now inflicting on yourself. You've seen the last of your son, who is likely with the angels now - as you will surely rot in hell for your politicization of his death and elevation fo his killers.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-05-21 11:45:21 PM|| 2004-05-21 11:45:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 It's very likely that Mr. Berg, being a lifelong liberal asshole, raised his son on the standard pablum; "Never trust the military. They're your enemy". Which is probably why he didn't take them up on their offer of a ride home. "I'd rather walk, than be seen with you military jerks".

Mr. Berg is a punk....and the nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-05-21 11:59:21 PM|| 2004-05-21 11:59:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 If my son was killed in a media event--I agree with Jarhead--how can anyone say how they would react. I still wonder exactly what he was doing there--if I were Jewish--I wouldn't be wandering around any Arab country during these times

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2004-05-22 12:06:20 AM|| 2004-05-22 12:06:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#28 I won't know what to think about think about until I read his opinion on what he thinks about his son's murderers. The media might have already asked him, but I refuse to follow this story. Any journalist that sticks a mike in front of this guy's face ought to be spanked thoroughly for lowering the over all sum total of human dignity. Let him stew in his own anguish and find his own road. May dad will figure it out and do something worthwhile with the rest of his life.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-22 3:11:59 AM|| 2004-05-22 3:11:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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