Michael Berg
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"Michael Berg" is an United States/American activist and politician who was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in the State of Delaware on the Green Party (United States)/Green Party ticket in the United States general elections, 2006/2006 midterm elections. He is most well known as the father of Nick Berg, one of the first American civilians to be abducted and beheaded by Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)/insurgents in Iraq.

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I'm not a politician; I'm a school teacher. There are times when it's really hard to do it, but I'm committed to it.

You can't go around telling people that you stand for peace when you have hatred and anger inside yourself. If everyone votes for what they really believe, that's all I ask.

He thought Saddam Hussein should be deposed, and that George Bush made a hard decision and a good one.

This midterm election is really a referendum on the war, it's a referendum on the Bush policies.

These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election. As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the cowardice of the Democratic Party leadership.

The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who protested in the streets in early 2003 were right. We need to hold public officials who got us into the Iraq war accountable. Being right doesn't make us proud, it makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than 2,300 U.S. service members, and the hundreds of civilian contractors.

Camp Casey Philadelphia. I would even go to jail if it would bring my son back.