Tuesday, May 11, 2004

From TalkLeft

More about Rick Berg, the young man brutally killed in Iraq by followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The article notes some curious circumstances regarding Mr. Berg's days in Iraq, including detention by both Iraqi and US security forces. Berg's family noted that he supported Bush, but they have mixed views about the invasion and the US committment to democracy. Additionally, they're not particularly happy about a lot of bureaucratic roadblocks they encountered when trying to ensure his safe travel back to the United States.

For the record: when George W. Bush was Rick Berg's age, he wasn't running a business that offered technical services in third world countries. Instead, he was going AWOL, and whooping it up at Hunter Thompson's Super Bowl party.

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