Second Negative | Nicholas Berg

Nicholas Berg

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

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I watched the video this morning. I’m not even really sure why. I heard several news anchors say that it was gruesome, and I guess that I needed to see for myself. I felt sick afterwards. Like most people in this country, I probably have a casual desensitization towards violence, but watching that man meet a horrible end was one of the most real and terrible things I could ever imagine.

The girlfriend thinks that this was bound to happen after the photos from Abu Ghraib were released. Maybe so. But do these groups really need an excuse to murder the innocent? What statement are they really making? What effect do the accidental deaths we have caused over the past year have on this retaliation?

Why is it so hard to remember a time that we were not fighting terrorists and reading about executions?

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Bitch, bitch, bitch, that's all you are.

Nicole — May 14, 2004 @ 9:04 AM

The “girlfriend” was not saying that because it was bound to happen that it is somehow less shocking. My take on the photos is that they should not have been released. Yes, the atrocities at the prison needed to stop. No, we did not need to risk innocent american lives to do so.

I just feel that when those photos were leaked we were adding fuel to an already raging fire. I pray to God that the remaining photos that the White House has in their possession stay behind special security closed doors.

I’m not concerned with free speech or the public’s right to know. I’m concerned with someone’s husband, brother, sister, wife, etc. dying as a result of backlash.

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