Posted on 05/22/2004 6:14:25 AM PDT by OutSpot
I still don't understand if this was deliberate, what point would it have served to attack the only country in the free world that keeps them alive? Not saying it wasn't deliberate, but what would be the reason for it...unless maybe the Liberty was providing Intel to the Arabs somehow.
Ping
Don't hold your breath for the truth on this in our life time.
Even if we buy the lie that Israel did not know it was a USA ship, how do they explain the shooting of men in the life rafts? Regardless of what side of a conflict a person is on, shooting at life rafts is not permitted under civilized rules of war. (sort of an oxymoron isn't it)
The US government is just a guilty of a cover up and lies as Israel.
There must (I hope) come a time in everyones life when they stop believing the fairy tales that any government is there to protect you. It is about power and power only. Does not matter if it is left, right, center, the citizens are simply to be ruled.
"Let the truth set you free."
Someday soon "truth" will indeed set us all free.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/
USS LIBERTY Memorial
http://www.ussliberty.org/
Thirty-four men died and 172 were wounded.
The history of the race, and each individual's experience,
are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill
and that a lie told well is immortal.
I thought that the "Arab Airforce" was pretty much destroyed, but so far, yours is the best plausible theory I've heard.
Were the "reparations" for this atrocity paid by Israel out of US taxpayer aid funds?
Right On!!I think Mr.Shafer's conclusion is reasonable.
I believe Senator John McCain's Naval Officer father was involved in the coverup of that incident -- not sure at what level.
Someday soon "truth" will indeed set us all free.
And since the post is not the truth CIA: USS "Liberty" hit was unintentional, then is the above post intended to enslave?
All is not as it seems with the Liberty, but this is one hot putton you cannot push on Free Republic. On this subject FR is neither Free nor a Republic. Post at your own risk!
The attack on the Liberty was to protect Israel's agents in the Pentagon (early day Michael Pollards). The Liberty was moving into a position to verify that Israel was acting on information they could only have gotten from undercover agents in the Pentagon.
I believe that Israel took a calculated risk and intentionally made multiple light attacks on the Liberty, which was in a very inconvenient place for them. They believed that they were fighting for the life of their nation which justified taking such risks. The gamble paid off, and we will never know if it was really necessary. My understanding is that Israel was afraid the US would step in and force them to stop if they had prior knowledge of what was going to happen. In the same circumstances I might well have made the same decision in their place. Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures. The Arab armies were massing for an attack to push Isreal into the sea.
What I found most disturbing was the recall of USN aircraft which had been scrambled to protect them. In all of the reports, that was never adequately explained. When your own side calls repeatedly for help, you don't call your planes home.
Bttt
That would suggest the attack to place before the war- the attack occured on june 8- on june 5 the IAF destroyed virtually the entire Egyptian airforce- by june 7, they'd swept through the sinai and destroyed the Egyptian formations stationed there.
I'm agnostic, leaning toward "accident" in my interpretation- but I don't think whatever it was had anything to do with hiding war preparations- the war had already begun, and was well in hand.
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