  Every once in a while, I like to make a visit to my good friends, urlLink Al Jazeera . During this endeavor, I ran across some really nifty items. One really stood out in particular though. You all remember Nicholas Berg, right? Some of you network fans out there might have missed this whole thing, due to the massive overcoverage of the Abu Ghraib prison story, so I'll summarize it for you. An American civilian in Iraq, Nicholas Berg, decided he could make a few honest bucks conducting some business in unfriendly Iraq.
Somehow, the enemy forces captured Berg, and on a video released to the media, they did something to him, that makes a man pyramid and a dog collar seem like... well... a man pyramid and a dog collar. First they read this giant schpiel about how America is the "great Satan. " Yadda yadda yadda. Then one of the cowards, armed with a large machette, grabbed Berg, and held him to the floor and began to saw away at his head. Not slice. Not hack.
Saw. While the rest of them started screaming "Praise Allah! " When the butcher finally finished his work, he held Berg's severed head up for the camera, blood dripping from the stump left of a neck. Anyway, back to Al Jazeera. urlLink One article is a feature done about Berg's father. Berg's father blames the "policies of the Bush adminstration" for the terrible thing that happened to his son.
I guess Berg's father missed the whole scene of his son screaming in agony as the blade carried by a man praising Allah, slowly ripped through his son's neck. Michael Berg (the father) also says that Bush's "ineffective leadership is a weapon of mass destruction. " I think he might have missed the whole sarin gas incident our troops encountered a couple of days ago. They also note that Nicholas Berg (the victim) had intended to leave Iraq earlier than he was allowed due to detention. Berg was scheduled to leave March 30. He was missing from March 24.
Damn that detention! Damn it to hell! We all know how willing the Iraqis would have been had Berg been allowed to leave six days after his capture. Now up until this point I thought I'd have a little pity on the father, you know losing a loved one and all, has got to put a lot of strain on the mind, enough to impair correct judgement even. After reading this, I realized my asessment was totally wrong and Nick Berg's father is a lunatic. Michael Berg in response to what we should have done after September 11: "I say we should have done then what we never did before: Stop speaking to the people we labelled our enemies and start listening to them.
" Pure genius, my friends. Pure genius. Mercilessly salughtering over 2,000 innocent Americans is obviously a warning sign of a group wanting to talk things out. Maybe we should have just started listening to Hitler. I also like his point that we label them as enemies. Nevermind the thousands of radical Muslim references to America as the "great Satan.
" Nevermind the burning corpses of the Halliburton employees. Nevermind the capture and murder of Daniel Pearl, a reporter in Afghanistan. Nevermind those 2,000 aforementioned killed on September 11. Nevermind the ruthless decapitation of your own son Mr. Berg. Berg later declares, "Stop making up rules by which others must live and then separate rules for ourselves. " Damn right.
For every American that plans to sneak into a Sbarro Pizza, with a vest full of explosives only intended for killing civillians, send him to prison. Why stop there, any American who tries to sneak a shoe bomb onto a commercial plane: Prison. I like your thinking Berg. 
