[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.

[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]

Where all the good Rebublicans when ya need em?

Dean Rusk

[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.

[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.

[old patriot]

I have read all of the information about this attack and it still comes back to one thing. Americans were killed and to label this anything other than a cover-up is a lie. BUT, this still falls into a case of friendly fire. I guess the recent attack against the American convoy in Gaza was an Israeli-backed attack as was 9/11. Eventually, there must be a closure about all such issues. These men fought and died in a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But, spy ships get rotten duties all the time. What about the time the same thing happened in Korea, or the EP-3A in China?

Old Patriot

[Ronin]

I have never bought the "accident" explanation. It was a deliberate attack. Israel did it, they know they did it, we know they did it.

Recognising that does not mean I do not support Israel now in the war against terror.

The people who made the decision to attack the USS Liberty as well as the people in America who allowed the cover-up to proceed should be identified and condemned.

Realistically, however, I doubt that is going to happen.

[x]

Given that so many Johnson White House officials say that LBJ wanted or ordered that the attack to be found an accident, it's not going out on a limb to assume that he did predetermine the result of the inquiry. Faced with Vietnam and growing dissent, he certainly didn't want problems in other areas, and we're all familar by now with the workings of government when it's convinced that national security is at stake.

And given all of that White House testimony, I'd say it's at least as likely as not that the attack was deliberate, though my opinion's no better than anyone else's. Was it justified? I expect that for the IDF anything would have been justified by necessity at the time, but such reasoning won't be shared by everyone. The arguments made in justification of the attack and those made to clear the IDF seem to work at cross purposes. For if the attack was regarded by the Israelis as justified, there's every reason to assume that they wouldn't have held back. Unfortunately, until we get more information about motives on both sides, this is going to remain a mystery and subject of heated debate.

[tracer]

For two evil bastards who could concoct the volume of lies that eventually lost the war in Vietnam, covering up the USS Liberty mess would have been child's play....

[tracer]

For two evil bastards who could concoct the volume of lies that eventually lost the war in Vietnam, covering up the USS Liberty mess would have been child's play....

[Bob J]

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