Cover-Up Alleged in Probe of USS Liberty

Associated Press ^ | 10/22/2003 | JENNIFER C. KERR

[GOP_1900AD]

Interesting timing on the release of this. Just a few days after Multhahir did his little Hitler imitation.

[sgtbono2002]

A Democrat President involved in a cover-up?
Say it aint so Joe.

[Poohbah]

Very interesting that the poster of this duplicate thread has a grand total of seven posts in two years, all of them related to the USS Liberty.

Troll, troll, troll your boat...

[StatesEnemy]

"Why would our government put Israel's interests ahead of our own?" Moorer asked from his wheelchair at the news conference. He was chief of naval operations at the time of the attack.

Why indeed.

[StatesEnemy]

He may be a troll. But that doesn't change the fact that the USS Liberty "incident" is far from settled.

[Poohbah]

He may be a troll.

He may not be a troll, but I wouldn't bet the mortgage payment on it.

But that doesn't change the fact that the USS Liberty "incident" is far from settled.

The evidence says "accident." Specifically, the use of ordnance completed unsuited to antiship work (most notably napalm) and the complete lack of coordination between air and surface forces.

[StatesEnemy]

Where all the good Rebublicans when ya need em?

Dean Rusk

[StatesEnemy]

The evidence says "accident."

With all due respect... Bullsh!t.

There are at least 3 survivors that swore they WAVED to the pilots during their low flyovers PRIOR to the attack.

The Israelis didn't like the fact that the gentile Merkins had a surveillance ship overlooking their latest foray.

[Catspaw]

Posted & pulled, posted & pulled, posted & pulled....

[Poohbah]

There are at least 3 survivors that swore they WAVED to the pilots during their low flyovers PRIOR to the attack.

PRIOR. As in HOURS prior.

And there's never been a commo f***up in anyone's military, ever, right?

[StatesEnemy]

Yup.... censorship among the neocons is almost as prevalent as among the lefties.

[StatesEnemy]

Israeli claims that this was a mistake were undermined by the disguised jets and testimony from a US intercept officer that the Israeli pilots had reported the ship was flying the US flag, and twice questioned their orders which were nonetheless confirmed.

The Israeli torpedo boat even attacked a lifeboat with machine gun fire. The US sailors defied Israeli fire to rig an emergency ariel to make a mayday message. Meanwhile US bombers were heading to Cairo with a nuclear bomb to avenge the attack which was blamed on the Egyptians.

When the mayday message was picked up the nuclear attack on Cairo was stopped by the personal intervention of Defence Secretary McNamara and President Lyndon Johnson. Johnson went along with the Israeli line in public, although presidential papers show that privately nobody believed it was an accident. The surviving crew of the Liberty were given medals in semi-secrecy, threatened with prison if they talked and systematically separated from each other by repostings.

I can't believe ya'll are defending the treasonous action of a Democratic administration.

[Catspaw]

How many times a day do you think this article should be posted? Two? Four? Six? Twelve? Twenty?

[StatesEnemy]

When it stays... it will not need to be posted again.

[Catspaw]

Where's your link in post #14? It's not in the original article.

[Belial]

Behavior tends to follow a pattern. There is no pattern of Israeli aggression against the US. In fact, the opposite is the case. Oftentimes, they submit their primary interests to our demands.

Perhaps it was a warning shot, but the power imbalance makes that theory pretty unlikely.

[Catspaw]

When it stays... it will not need to be posted again.

Oh, so you'll keep posting the article repeatedly until "it stays?"

Funny thing--I thought Jim Robinson owned this forum.

[TopQuark]

AM: Please correct the title. It should read:

Cover-Up Alleged in Probe of USS Liberty

By presenting an allegation as a fact, hanuman has stated a falsehood.