A letter from Michael Berg

This article in the Guardian publishes a letter from Michael Berg, Nick Berg's father. It's clear that he feels that Bush's policy for Iraq is as much to blame for his son's murder as the people who did it. He call's Bush himself a weapon of mass destruction.

It's an interesting response to his tragedy; there is a part where he imagines his murderers may have felt a little regret:

"I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren't quite as in to it as they might have been."

I wince at that comment, because I'm pretty sure I would not feel like that. But then who knows how we might feel until it happens to us. I think if someone close to you is killed, especially a child, you might reach out for anything that might give some high meaning or noble purpose to the death. The alternative is rage and anger. I think Mr Berg's letter is a bit of both.

I originally stumbled across this letter at a republican party support site of all places, (gopusa) but they chose to report it from an Islamic internet site - and then suggested that readers should "note the source of the information"! Five seconds search in the Guardian found the actual context of the letter. The obvious attempt to create a jaundiced view is an act of desperation, I think. There is another comment on the site claiming that WMDs have been found, on the basis of finding a single chemical warhead. So to these people it is obvious there must be more! After one year of searching, to come up with a single old chemical warhead (supplied by whom I wonder?) is seriously put forward as a significant find which the press in America are apparantly ignoring. Gosh, I wonder why. I guess they are just too left wing for gopusa writers.