I want JUSTICE for Nick Berg

The men who beheaded Nick Berg should stand trial for war crimes. Anything less than severe punishment for those specific individuals will be an injustice. Killing surrogates will not suffice.

The freeper calls for one MOAB dropped for each American killed. Their brains are just as precise as the mother of all dumb bombs. See how well this strategy of a thousand eyes for an eye is working in Israel.

Since our nation is already damned by our actions we might as well go all the way.

I think that's their plan.

... you gonna stand up for them, too?

He said he wants these killers brought to justice--not surrogates. Not a thousand Arab eyes for an American eye.

I try.

They are the real war criminals here, the others are all small fry.

Severe punishment for all responsible for these atrocities, up to the very top.

Place bush, rumsfeld and cheney on trial as war criminals and ill agree with you. Its easy to condemm others when they commit atrocities as we do.

...but are all of the people of Iraq guilty too? Scapegoating must not be allowed here.

Iraqis, I want justice for the people who brutally, torturously beheaded Berg.

I can't understand why anyone would not feel this way.

I'm worried that too many here ae just throwing up their and saying "BUSH'S FAULT!"

Of course Bush is responsible for this mess, but THESE SICK FUCKS BEHEADED A GUY!!!

DON'T LET THESE SICK FUCKERS OFF!!!

Justice should not be political.

wants to let these killers off. But, I'm even angrier at Bushwad (I didn't think it was possible to be angrier!) for getting us into this big, crappy, unnecessary mess of a "war" in the first place. And after three years of watching BushCo in action, I'm completely cynical and suspicious of anything they're involved with.

This rush to put on our tinfoil hats is indicative of how throughly disgusted most of us are with Bushwad. What reason do we have to trust this administration? And the timing of the Berg video is just so convenient for Bush....

the Iraqis were tortured and it will be best when those responsible for both reprehensible acts are brought to justice, ALL!

They're the perps.

Nick Berg would be alive had our great war leader not taken us into Iraq - uninvited I might add. I blame every death on Bush.
Tit for tat. Tit for tat. Tit for tat. It will never end as long as the Crawford Cowboy and his war mongering chickenhawks are in power.

Why was he held and then released?

Why wasn't he allowed to leave Iraq?

Something is not right here.

Not one damn thing right.

...after we get justice for the 10,000 Iraqi civilians that have been murdered in our illegal invasion?

What was civilian Berg doing in a war zone anyway?

who comes first. Murder is murder and no murderer should go unpunished.

and worse, here in the grand and glorious US of A innocents are imprisoned and murdered for crimes they did not commit. Whether these hooded men were Al Qaeda, fanatical Iraqi zealots or CIA operatives they will undoubtedly never be caught. Better we deal with the root causes of Berg's murder, the torture of prisoners and the slaughter of innocent Iraqis.....

OBL is still on the run, who is the anthrax terrorist? When OBL attacked our country, we attacked Iraq! My guess is we will attack Syria in the name of justice.

we had to worry about, then the guy who beheaded Nick Berg would have probably been caught or killed a long time ago, as well as Bin Laden. And Bush may have been looking at certain re-election.


So maybe, as he definitely cannot be meant to be a two termer, the war in Iraq had to happen, just to make sure he lost in November!

Justice is long gone from this sad planet. Too many people equate justice to vengeance. Not sure which you mean.

I'm lamenting the senseless killing, maiming and wounding that goes unpunished.

After all the torture pictures, the rapes, the unbelievable remarks from our own Senators, and now the Berg beheading; I'm just not much in the mood for more punishment. Seems everybody's been "punished" enough.

I know what you mean.

is suspose to be blind,how about some blind justice for the ten thousand civilians killed by american and our hired guns?.

One does not exclude the other.

but we need to know the entire story of his life in Iraq. We have not really been given that information.

and although he was beheaded, we must ask how they came to capture him and why he was detained by the American intelligence.

and we must ask if we had not tortured prisoners, forced an Iraqi old woman to get on all fours so that we can ride her like a horse or a donkey'

well, one needs to know the answers to this.


The answers given to us at today's hearings are lacking--a whitewash

I am sick of this jerk around. This whitewash, this joke being perpetrated by our so called representatives.

We are being jerked around and we will find more and more of our own people kidnapped and beheaded as long as we remain in that area, supporting the safety of Israel in the ME, and putting up sanctions against Syria and also threatening Iran and generally pissing off the people who live there who have NOT threatened US in any way

Have you ever, at any point, supported this war?

They should see justice done too; and no, I never supported this war.

for their murders?

You have a star. My sentiments on this war and those who are responsible for the associated atrocities has been clear.

But I think you miss my point. I want justice, not some misdirected, reckless vengeance delivered to more innocents.

I think it was Aziz who said that the Iraqis would behead our soldiers and burn their bodies. There is no excuse for these despicable actions, and I don't buy the abuse argument, but the truth is that we were warned.

And knowing what could happen, we punched a whole in a hornet's nest. We got hornets.

I find it extremely hard to be liberal and believe in the value of life and the common goodness in my fellow man...I'm usually anti-DP, but I would have NO qualms giving those pieces of shit the same treatment given to Berg...Sadly, both Iraqis and Americans that had nothing to do with this will catch major hell in the future. I'll probably have a clearer and saner mind in the morning, but right now, I want blood. Seeing this gives me the impulse to kill something, a feeling I have not had since 9-11.

me and grovelbot posted at the same time!! try to top that!!

. . that this guy was not invited to Iraq. He was there to make money from their misfortune. He went over (twice) and must have been aware of the danger. Certainly he knew that thousands of Iraqi civilians had been killed during our war - and later, during our occupation. Thousands more were being held in prisons. And insurgents were taking prisoners and hostages I believe since the war started.

Now we learn that he had no contract and worked for no larger company as a subcontractor that might have provided him some level of armed security.

He drank the koolaid. He believed that the Iraqis would be thankful for our presence - at least enough not to kill him. He also gambled that things would get better, not worse. That the *Bush/Rumsfeld policy would eventually succeed.

He lost that bet - and a lot more. I think what happened was unfortunate but not surprising. I'm not happy that he was killed. The method is immaterial. It was done to send a message. Beheading wraps the message in a package that will have max impact. That's just good marketing by al Queda. I think Karl Rove has meet his equal in marketing 101. But he's just as dead as if he was shot or strangled.

I'm not happy when anyone is killed in a war. But I feel more sympathy for his family than for him.

Berg's agonizing, public death **is** a horrifying tragedy, but then this preemptive, immoral war is one big tragedy. Every day the U.S. spends in Iraq merely increases the probability that this sort of savage act will occur.

The individuals who killed Berg were masked -- their identity may never be known. What sort of killing will bring Berg back, or make his death any less tragic?

We cannot fall into the trap of making this a vendetta -- a blood feud. Look where that has gotten he Israelis and Palestinians, or the Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.

It's a loser's game, with absolutely no chance of anyone coming out a winner. Just lots of corpses.

this was supposed to be a day of celebration (got accepted for a fellowship). The proudest day I've had in years, and yet, I'm far from a partying mood due to the the events of today