No Shit, Sherlock!!

I'd like to start with Michael Berg, the father of murdered American Nicholas Berg. You remember him, don't you? He was the guy that was beheaded on camera by bloodthirsty Islamists in Iraq. It was talked about on all the major news networks for about a day, but they quickly buried the story because it didn't fit in with their politcal objectives. Mr. Berg's father, Michael, has come completely unhinged, and is saying a lot of shit that goes well beyond the standard leftist hate-America claptrap. A lot of people are stepping back and giving him room to "grieve." I, on the other hand, am calling "bullshit."

While Mr. Berg is completely within his rights to coddle terrorists, make excuses for their barbarism, and point fingers at the Bush Administration for his son's murder, he's still a fucking lunatic (and I'm within my rights to say so). Just this week, Berg wrote a letter (published in The Guardian) talking about how horrible Bush is for starting wars around the globe. In fact, Berg actually insinuated that the bastards who slit his son's throat are morally superior to President Bush, and that they probably had at least one microsecond where they didn't actually enjoy sawing his fucking kid's head off. This guy is clearly two tacos short of a combo plate, and I'm not going to back off from saying so, just because he's "distraught."

Don't misunderstand me. There is absolutely nothing wrong with somebody using a loved one's death to further a cause. If a kid is killed by a drunk driver, his or her parents may join MADD and fight to reduce drunk driving incidents. If a man dies from smoking, his wife may join the fight against "big tobacco" (as long as she's not looking at his death like a winning lottery ticket, she's OK in my book). Finally, there are the people like John Walsh who turned his son's kidnapping and murder into a lifelong effort at catching dangerous criminals. He has done an admirable job.

Mr. Berg, on the other hand, is a nut. His son wasn't even authorized to be in Iraq, but he went there anyway. That's not to minimize his barbaric and gruesome murder, but let's not lose sight of reality. If we're gong to start assigning levels of responsibility (and point fingers) President Bush is nowhere near the top of that list. Furthermore, it is the height of lunacy to actually MAKE EXCUSES for the bloodthirsty sacks of shit who killed him (and to somehow blame the president). It is not Bush's job to "look into your son's eyes," Mr. Berg. He's the fucking Commander-in-Chief, and we're at war. How dare you say that Bush is the least bit "responsible?"

Berg then falls back into his Sept 10th fantasy world, where we all sit down and "listen" to al Qaeda and other Islamists (who are just itching to kill us and put our women into burquas). We've tried "being nice," remember? The result was over 3000 people murdered on 9/11, and we were caught with our pants down. Looks like Mr. Berg's pants still are. Perhaps a belt or something would help. You want to "listen" to the terrorists? Over my dead body, Mr. Berg. Peddle your snake oil on Sesame Street. Better yet, why not just shut the hell up and stop degrading the memory of your son?

Ironically, with the crap he is saying, Mr. Berg is actually (and nobody else has the guts to say this) eroding a large amount of sympathy and goodwill the American people have for him and his son. It's ironic, because Berg and his ilk in the so-called "peace" movement have repeated ad nauseum that Bush "squandered the goodwill of the world" which we supposedly had after 9/11 by going to war in Iraq. Here's another newsflash: much of that "goodwill" never existed. Sure, a few people held candlelight vigils, but the majority of the people living in the shitholes around the world didn't give a crap about what happened (and many actually celebrated it). Whatever genuine "goodwill" there was for America after 9/11 dried up when the first bombs fell on Assramistan. The sad story is, to most of the world the only good American is a DEAD American. They tolerated us after we were attacked, but the moment we started to fight back at the terrorists (and the nations that harbored them) the fake sympathy came to a grinding halt. They hate us. Now get over it.