Did Michael Moore finger Nick Berg for Death?

Date Created: 11/30/2007 7:17:00 PM

Posted Date: 11/30/2007 6:23:00 PM

I sat through 'Bowling for Columbine' when it first came out a couple of years back, and after I did I did a little checking and found out what Michael Moore was not telling us. 

April 20th, the date of the Columbine shootings, was Adolph Hitler's birthday.  Now why didn't Moore mention that?  He thought the bombing of Croatia beginning on April 20, 1999 was important enough to mention.  Why not that? 

Could it be that mentioning Hilter's birthday would undercut Moore's thesis that the Columbine shootings were the result of American being a nation of gun-toting rubes?  If he mentioned that Klebold and Harris were twisted contemporary Nazi sympathizing shits, it would seem more likely that what caused Columbine was 19^th Century European collectivism, by way of Bavarian Nationalism, by way of a murderous hatred for the Jewish people.  Whatever that shit is, it's not what I call 'America'. 

So why didn't Michael Moore say anything about Hitler's birthday?  Is it because in 'Bowling for Columbine' he interviews Marilyn Manson, whose namesake Charlie Manson has a swastika scratched between his eyebrows?

Also, since 'Bowling for Columbine' included footage of the World Trade Center attack of Sept 11, 2001, why didn't Moore tell us Dylan Bennet Klebold was born on September 11, 1981?

Why didn't Moore say Klebold had a notebook with sketches and a plan for hijacking a plane and flying it into the World Trade Center, (so writes Steven King in a New York Times Magazine article Sept 23, 2001)?  It must undercut that 'gun toting rube thesis'. 

In 'Bowling for Columbine' Moore takes a little detour in foreign policy (and Bush bashing of the forty-first President variety), saying the sanctions used against Iraq in the 1990's were immoral and responsible of the starvation deaths of thousands of Iraqi children.  Wait a minute.  Isn't that exactly the same reason as number six in Osama bin Laden's letter to the American people, Nov. 2003, were he explained why he attacked America and why he'll continue to attack?

"(f). You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down."

You mean to tell me Michael Moore and Osama bin Laden were on the same page about those sanctions against Iraq?  Holy shit, politics does make strange butt-buddies.  And isn't it funny how Osama explicitly links Iraq and 9/11, something nobody in America seems to have the guts to do?  All right, I'll do it.  If Saddam gave Al Qeada money (Ayman al-Zawahiri visiting Baghdad with his hand out in 1998 - 'A little something for the widows and orphans?') any amount whatsoever then Saddam is an accessory to 9/11.  People on the TV show Law and Order have been arrested for less.

Anyway, all the leftwing loudmouths ended up by saying, "Sanctions were working, sanctions were working," which is why the Iraq war was supposedly unnecessary.  Hold the phone - I thought the sanctions were immoral and responsible of the starvation deaths of thousands of Iraq children?  That's how leftwing loudmouths were stating it in the 90's.  But it seems that the Leftwing loudmouths of the New Millennium are now singing a different tune. 

So which is it: sanctions were immoral or sanctions were working?  You can't have it both ways, not that that will stop the toads from taking their cue from the Toad King, Michael Moore.

And it gets worse.  For the movie 'Fahrenheit 911' Michael Moore's film crew interviewed Nick Berg in Virginia in 2003.  Footage of Berg never made it into the final cut.

When a student in Minnesota, Nicholas Berg met al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui while riding a bus to class.  Berg, believe it or not, had allowed Moussaoui to use his computer which explains how Moussaoui got a hold of Nick Berg's password.  Nick Berg would eventually be interviewed by the FBI post 9-11 on this matter and would be cleared of any suspicion.

Eventually Nick Berg would head to Iraq to work for some NGO and would be famously murdered on tape by the late Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  A second encounter with Al Qaeda?  And I here thought, for the average American, the odds that you'd die from a bee sting were higher than you dying in a terrorist attack. 

I guess Nick Berg wasn't your average American.  When you think about, it is kind of strange how he ended up on the cutting-room floor twice.