Mike Berg: "Bush's ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction"

[papau]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221644,00.html

George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes

Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives

Michael Berg Friday May 21, 2004 The Guardian

<snip>People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration...George Bush never looked into my son's eyes. George Bush doesn't know my son, and he is the worse for it. George Bush, though a father himself, cannot feel my pain, or that of my family, or of the world that grieves for Nick, because he is a policymaker, and he doesn't have to bear the consequences of his acts. George Bush can see neither the heart of Nick nor that of the American people, let alone that of the Iraqi people his policies are killing daily.

Donald Rumsfeld said that he took responsibility for the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners. How could he take that responsibility when there was no consequence? Nick took the consequences. <snip>

George Bush's ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction, and it has allowed a chain reaction of events that led to the unlawful detention of my son which immersed him in a world of escalated violence. Were it not for Nick's detention, I would have had him in my arms again. That detention held him in Iraq not only until the atrocities that led to the siege of Fallujah, but also the revelation of the atrocities committed in the jails in Iraq, in retaliation for which my son's wonderful life was put to an end. <snip>



Michael Berg is the father of Nick Berg, the US contractor beheaded on video in Iraq this month by a group believed to be linked to al-Qaida. This is an extract from his message of support for the Stop The War Coalition's demonstration, End the Torture - Bring the Troops Home Now, which will be held at 11am tomorrow at the Embankment in London

[coloradodem2005]

1. Preach on brother.

[historian]

2. any way to contact the father and offer help?

[mzmolly]

3. I like that idea.

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[bedtimeforbonzo]

4. I am sure that the one who wielded the knife felt Nick's breath on his

"I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren't quite as in to it as they might have been. I am sure that they came to admire him. "

Somehow I don't think they came to admire him before they cut his head off.

[CatWoman]

5. kick

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[Wind Dancer]

6. He speaks with true compassion!

We will never see that printed in an American newspaper.