Apart from the conspiracy to post 'font color="#00c6000"' on 'BGCOLOR="#000000" [I'm not sure why there are seven numbers in the 'hexadecimal', or which one doesn't belong] and make this impossible to read without hitting Control-A first...uh...there was a second half to this sentence, but I forgot it.
     Anyway: inasmuch as I was able to skim this before my hatchling headache told me to stop, I think I caught enough keywords to get the point. And the question is a good one: why release this video at all? For what purpose. So let's figure that out....
     The Iraqis--bear with the generalisations here--have no historical problem with killing people. That's also largely the case with Americans. So that's a dead end.
     The Iraqis don't much mind decapitating people. The Americans...there might be the same percentage of psychopaths here. Hard to say.
     Nothing in the video suggests, to me, that neither side could have been responsible. That's important to note. All the elements in the video--including the camera[s]--are available in either country, as well as others. So that's sort of a dead end. But it's something to bear in mind.
     As the conspiracy idiots are so fond of mentioning, the guy was likely dead before being parcelled out. That's not news; we caught that here right away. And, again, either country can remove a head from a cadaver.
     The chair in the video was available to Americans. We've covered that.
     The flightsuit was American penal. While the Americans might have more access, the Iraqis could probably get it. If it's what the conspiracy nuts are actually accusing it of being. For all I know, Berg was just a really heavy SlipKnot fan and he wore the boilersuit in off the street. Who knows.
     So. All things considered, anyone on the planet could have made this video. Possibly by being a complete idiot. Unless the fuckups were intentional.
     If it were me, and I wanted to play with Americans' fears [heh: 'if'], then, given the bullshit surrounding the twin towers--initial shock leading to disassociated rage leading to conspiracy theories that the CIA had made the attack happen, just to create the imaginary need for a defence budget [not my words, incidentally]--I might, say, make an intentionally spurious film, killing an American to get the shock, wearing a mask to get the rage, and making Revenge of the Dead look like a Kubrick film to get the conspiracy 'tards to blame Junior for the whole thing in the final months before the election.
     But that's me. And, as MondoHebe will tell you, early and often, I'm indicative of nothing. Are the Iraqis smart enough to plan a dichotomous diornithicide? I dunno. Are the Americans dumb enough to misplan a propganda video? I dunno. Are the French behind the whole thing? Probably. Do I actually care yet? Not really.
     A guy died. Occasionally, he's a soldier, a war profiteer, an antiislamic jew, an antisemitic jew, an antiretail jew, Elvis in disguise, et cetera. Occasionally he's dead before the video begins, occasionally he's dead before he's beheaded, occasionally he's dead after he's beheaded, occasionally he's in a cafe having coffee with Jim Morrison, et cetera. None of this matters much to me. The guy's dead. And, if it's a popularity contest, it worked out for him. Because, for every minute he was alive, I was oblivious to his existence. Give the corpse a star sticker.
     You know who I really think is behind all this? The conspiracy morons. They grabbed this guy, made a bad video, and uploaded it, just so they'd have something to whimper and blather about. Everyone okay with that hypothesis? Great. It's settled. Michael Fucking Moore killed Nick Berg. End of story.
--Gremlin

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• Maybe it was Oliver North? (not that I care) [nt] posted by Damien [24.159.232.32 - 24-159-232-32.jvl.wi.charter.com] on 06 June 2004 at 21.13.14 ZuluTime (0)