A Small Victory Demonstrates Many Small Minds

There's a thread on A Small Victory where the GOP hate crew is ripping apart Mike Berg, Nick Berg's father for having the audacity to blame Bush for his son's incredibly public execution.

The comment thread is sickening to read, assholes saying he's exploiting his son's death for political gain. The hate being oozed over there is grotesque.

I could write volumes on this but I won't. Nick Berg shouldn't have been there. He had some ideology that allowed him to rationalize his being there. But he shouldn't have been there. He should have gone home when the FBI told him it was a good idea to go. He didn't. He was captured and executed in a brutal and public fashion.

And the shit spewers in the comments are calling him names, denigrating him in every manner possible and all seem to be overlooking the most obvious fact, the man is mourning the loss of his son, he needs to lay blame somewhere, he needs to find some way to closure in all of this. He should be looking at himself and laying quite a lot of blame there but he's not capable of that right now, he's grieving for his murdered son. He has every damned right to lash out at everyone and everything he thinks is responsible for it.

The media would do well to allow him some privacy and time to deal with his loss and not quote him when he rants on and on. But it makes for good juicy press so they'll slobber all over themselves to deliver his latest diatribes blaming Bush and his whole regime. I don't think Nick Berg's death is Bush's fault, not directly at least. Nick Berg was a freelance contractor in Iraq of his own free will. He wasn't a soldier, wasn't a licensed contractor. He was looking for some war loot most likely, trying to capitalize on all the rebuilding cash flowing all over the place.

But attacking his family for their grief is lower than low, its subterranean, not unlike Donald Rumsfeld, that reptilian crook who professed no knowledge of the crimes being committed under his orders (allegedly) in the Iraqi prisons. The depth of my abhorrence for these people and their defenders is beyond my ability to relate or otherwise describe.