Michael Smerconish Editorial: BUSH DIDN'T KILL NICK

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Michael Smerconish | BUSH DIDN'T KILL NICK

HATE MONGERING FANATICS WITH A SICK NEED TO KILL TOOK HIS LIFE


THIS ISN'T going to be easy. But some things need to be said to Michael Berg even as he grieves the loss of his son. It would have been more appropriate to let the dust settle before this discourse began, but that is no longer an option where he has turned this tragedy into a morbid blame game.

First and foremost, civilized people everywhere mourn for your family. Nick Berg was, by all accounts, a fine son - smart, ambitious and with an independent spirit for life. Twenty-six is way too young to die. No father should have to endure what you must be going through.

But...

George Bush did not kill your son. Nor did Donald Rumsfeld. And, quite frankly, you are the one politicizing his death when you introduce their names into the same breath as his obituary.

Furthermore, it's just not accurate for you to say "Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld." Your son died due to the sins of unholy people acting through some misguided and irrational vision of their faith. And, frankly, you give your son's murderers the credibility they so desperately lack when you say otherwise.


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Ironically their is an ad for Bush/Cheney 2004 with Laura Bush on the same page

and btw this guy is right - Bush & Rumsfeld didn't kill Nick Berg. But their horrible policies in Iraq did play a major part in the killing. Sometimes it isn't the person wielding the knife but the person barking the orders behind the scenes

"sins of unholy people acting through some misguided and irrational vision of their faith"

Hey idiot boy, your fearless leader thinks he was chosen by God to eradicate the evil-doers (read: Muslims). Personally I think it is slightly "unholy" to attack a foreign country, kill their citizens and steal their oil based on a pack of lies. Further, the excuse that "God told me to do it" is a tad on the irrational side.

Once again we have a repuke that isn't decent enough to let a man grieve in peace.

and as a result, they are indeed responsible for the consequences of an invasion based on LIES about WMD.

Buscho has the blood of every Iraqi death, every US military death, every "coalition" military death, every civilian death, every contractor death - all deaths as a result of this illegal invasion are on their hands, like it or not. All of these people have lost their lives for lies told by Buchco.

gestation.