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2004-05-13 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-05-13 12:30:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hate to say this, but Mr. Berg (the deceased, younger version) is beginning to sound like a bit of a flake.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2004-05-13 9:49:15 AM|| 2004-05-13 9:49:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It seems to me that everytime something bad happens everyone is so quik to point the finger. I just find it interesting that now that an American was brutaly murdered, and we all saw, the government is quik to explain what a flake and how unrelable Burg was. Almost as if they are trying to justify what has happend to him. It all seems to me that they are just trying to protect their behinds, and pray that they don't loose even more war support than they already have in the last months.

Posted by Anonymous1023 2004-05-13 10:08:43 AM|| 2004-05-13 10:08:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think they're dumping on him; I think they're explaining why they couldn't protect him.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-13 10:15:06 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-05-13 10:15:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It seems to me that everytime something bad happens everyone is so quik to point the finger

Almost as if they are trying to justify what has happend to him. It all seems to me that they are just trying to protect their behinds

It seems to me that everytime something bad happens, shitheads like Anon1023 are so quick to point the finger, almost as if they are trying to justify what Islamonazi terorists do. It seems to me that they are just trying to protect their behinds, and pray that people don't support the war even more than they have in the last months.

Posted by BMN 2004-05-13 10:17:14 AM|| 2004-05-13 10:17:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Berg (the elder, undeceased version) is dumping his grief and anti-american political baggage on the US effort. I think it's only logical the US would respond. If not, charges of conspiracy and coverup would abound (and still will among the moonbats). Was that Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz cutting his head off?
/sarcasm

Posted by Anonymous4813 2004-05-13 10:32:48 AM|| 2004-05-13 10:32:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Anon4813 was me...don't know what happened there....

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-13 10:37:22 AM|| 2004-05-13 10:37:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I am honored to have two older brothers in active duty right now. One of them is currently serving right in the heart of the beast, Baghdad. The emails he has sent home has described the place as very similar to the old wild west.

I personally have a great deal of admiration for Nicholas Berg. He seems, by all accounts, to have embodied the best attributes of Western society in that on one hand, there seemed to be a genuine altruistic motivation to help the iraqi people get on their feet, while at the same time pursuing it through means of an entrepeneurial effort. However, even in a civilzed situation, to conduct business like the kind he was pursuing requires a good deal of handshaking and shmoozing, and dealing. In a place like Iraq, besides having to deal with the on-edge coalition that is just barely keeping the place under control, in a place where the government is referred to as "interim", and in a place where the people you are trying to make the deals with are from a society and a culture very different from the one he grew up in, it would have been very easy to have inadverdantly say the wrong thing, get tricked into meeting with the wrong people, or just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The restless, questing, free spirit has always been America's greatest asset, and at the same time, carried with it the ultimate risk, from the Pilgrims who risked their lives to live in a new land, the the first colonials, to the westward expanding pioneers, to our astronauts. There are plentiful examples of those who died pursuing this way of life.

I have not yet seen the film of Nick Berg's murder, and don't know that I need to. While some people need in-your-face proof just who and what our enemy is, since 9/11, I have not had anything obscuring my view of who they are, and what needs to be done to stop them.

I didn't know Nicholas Berg and I couldn't say that he was a saint, but from what I have learned about him, I can say that he seemed to be a good man - not a greedy, carpetbagging opportunist (some media subtly, but insidiously, refer to him as a "businessman", which conjures up pictures more akin to middle-age, balding, suit-wearing types, not 26-year olds who spent time in Ghana helping those people to live a little better). The people who would smear him in this way are the same people who would smear Pat Tillman, who also made the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of bettering the world. These people are cynics, and are bitter that while they whine impotently for a better world, people like Nick Berg and Pat Tillman actually try to contribute to that effort - even at the greatest risk.

For what it's worth, I feel absolutely horrible for Nick Berg and his family. I wish I had some words of comfort for them, but none would be appropriate. We need more people lke him, people who truly search for the win-win solution of, " I want to help people and improve their quality of life, and at the same time, fulfill my own ambitions and pusuits." May his family be comforted among the other mourners of zion, and may G-d rest his soul.

Posted by Ken B. 2004-05-13 12:57:51 PM|| 2004-05-13 12:57:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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