Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father : Melbourne Indymedia

Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father
Thu May 13, 2004 03:05 PM ET

By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq, directly blamed President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death.
"My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said in an interview with radio station KYW-AM.
In the interview from outside his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a seething Michael Berg also said his 26-year-old son, a civilian contractor, probably would have felt positive, even about his executioners, until the last minute.
"I am sure that he only saw the good in his captors until the last second of his life," Berg said. "They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend."
Two days after the publication of a video showing the execution of his son by five masked men, Berg attacked the Bush administration for its invasion of Iraq and its sponsorship of the Patriot Act, which gives sweeping powers of surveillance to the federal government.
Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: "It's not the same America I grew up in."
The criticism came amid finger-pointing between Berg's family, U.S. military officials and Iraqi police over the young businessman's imprisonment before his execution.
Michael Berg rejected U.S. government claims that his son had never been held by American authorities in Iraq. The Iraqi police chief in the city of Mosul has also contradicted statements by the U.S.-led coalition concerning the younger Berg's detention.
'FBI CAME TO MY HOUSE'
"I have a written statement from the State Department in Baghdad ... saying that my son was being held by the military," Berg said. "I can also assure you that the FBI came to my house on March 31 and told me that the FBI had him in Mosul in an Iraqi prison."
Dan Senor, spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority, said this week that Nick Berg was arrested in Mosul by Iraqi police on March 24 and released on April 6.
Senor said the FBI visited Berg three times during his detention by Iraqi police and determined that he was not involved in criminal or terrorist activities.
Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said American military police had seen Berg during his detention to make sure he was being fed and treated properly.
Berg returned to Baghdad from Mosul in April and went missing on April 9, during a chaotic period when dozens of foreigners were snatched by guerrillas west of the capital.
His body was discovered by a road near Baghdad on Saturday. The video of his decapitation was posted on the Internet on Tuesday.
Berg had been in Baghdad from late December to Feb. 1 and returned to Iraq in March. He did not find work and planned to return home at the end of March, according to his parents.
Berg's communications to his parents stopped on March 24 and he told them later he was jailed by Iraqi officials after being picked up at a checkpoint in Mosul.
On April 5, the Bergs filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, naming Rumsfeld and alleging their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military in Iraq. The next day, he was released. (additional reporting by Maher al-Thanoon)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5137194

The crucial point is this line;

"..On April 5, the Bergs filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, naming Rumsfeld and alleging their son was being held illegally by the U.S. military in Iraq. The next day, he was released...."

And yet he chose to stay in Iraq, because he was a friend to the Iraqi people.

He wanted to help.

That he was murdered by some Al Quaeda scum from outside Iraq, and that the so-called "left" and it's cultural allies on the anti-Semitic lunar right have to defend his murderers tells you all you need to know.

pointing the finger
by Shin Bet wants you in Al-Qaida Saturday May 15, 2004 at 01:58 AM

"Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.
The Al-Qaida people are probably just as bad as they are, but this administration did this."

Al Zarqawi dons a black hood for anonymity.
[ACTION]
"I am Al Zarqawi", he proclaims!

What are the odds?

Abu Ghraib prison chair

"Al Qaida" chair

Abu Ghraib prison chair

I have chairs like that on my patio - they fit neatly in a stack.

I must admit, I thought I had the ONLY chairs like them in the world.

Anyway.....

Of the many nauseating things about this murder - quite apart from the usual IMM attempts at exculpating the killers - was the attempt by Berg's dad to make political mileage out of it.

The fact is, Berg supported the war. He was there voluntarily over his father's objections.

So, it is strikingly unprincipled of his father to further belittle Nick's reasons for being there by mitigating the responsibility of the guy who cut his throat.

Perhaps Berg Senior's cowardice is what drove Berg Junior to Iraq? In which case, Berg Senior is also guilty.

I've seen hundreds of similar plastic chairs in my life - but I've never seen ones *exactly* like the ones in the Abu Ghraib prison photos, which, incidentally--and not at all suspiciously--are identical to the chair in the Nick Berg slaying video, and unlike chairs in any other photos that I can find from Iraq. Gosh! What a coincidence!

No matter how much it may stink, the official narrative must never be questioned. To do so is treason.

...Al Zarqawi dons a hood for anonymity.
"I am Al Zarqawi", he shouts proudly to the camera....