The Opposite of "Top Ten Conservative Idiots"

[KamaAina]

Maybe we could keep it down to five, and put it up on Friday: "Top Five Real Americans" or the like.

Nomination #1: Michael Berg, father of behading victim Nicholas Berg. Seems there are some questions as to whether or not the younger Berg may have been in U.S. custody recently:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_1

And here's the prizewinner:

Berg's father blamed the U.S. government for creating circumstances that led to his son's death, saying if his son had not been detained for so long, he might have been able to leave Iraq before the violence worsened.

"I think a lot of people are fed up with the lack of civil rights this thing has caused," Michael Berg said. "I don't think this administration is committed to democracy."

[trof]

1. Kurt Vonnegut

But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America’s becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey/

[BlueEyedSon]

2. I <heart> K V

[KamaAina]

3. I second Vonnegut

How many "Billy Pilgrims" will be coming back from this horror show?

"You know, he was in Fallujah when it was bombed..."