Berg's dad: Why I blame Bush for son's death
Nicholas Berg's father has an ax to grind with George W. Bush. Somehow, I doubt Our Sainted President is even paying attention. After all, he's got an election to steal...er, win.
People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: "Don't you blame the five men who killed him?" I have answered that I blame them no more or less than the Bush administration, but I am wrong: 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....
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. That detention immersed my son in a world of escalated violence (and) were it not for his 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 to 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....
We are fed up with the lies from our government about Nick's detention and we are fed up with the lies from our government about the reasons for this war.... Many people have offered to pray for Nick and my family. I appreciate their thoughts, but I ask them to include in their prayers a prayer for peace. I ask them to do more than pray. I ask them to demand it from the politicians and leaders in the White House and in the statehouses across the world and in the mountain camps where they may hide. And let them know that if you don't get it, they aren't going to work for you as their leaders any more.
Isn't it about time that we held Bush accountable for the lies and deceptions that have led us to this point? How many more American- in uniform and out- will have to die before we finally grasp the reality that this is all about Bush saving face so he can win in November? Perhaps if Bush could have been bothered to go to a funeral or two, he would have been able to see the results of his failed policy.
We deserve the truth. We deserve honest, effective leadership. WE DESERVE BETTER.
