[Orblivion]

With heros like Spector it's no wonder israel finds little sympathy. When I read this guy's quotes I was utterly disgusted. Sounds like those folks were quite trigger happy and had no compunctions about murdering a wounded unidentified "foe".

And yeah, I'm sure the survivors wake up every god damn day thanking jesus that schmuck wasn't armed with a bomb. Wow, thanks for small miracles.

[DB]

Adam_az is defending Spector...

[adam_az]

"And yeah, I'm sure the survivors wake up every god damn day thanking jesus that schmuck wasn't armed with a bomb. Wow, thanks for small miracles."

They should wake up every day and wonder why their ship was there in the first place, and why the US didn't notify Israel that it had a ship in the warzone.

Also I don't think you can blame Israel for Spector being a putz. Blame his electorate.

As for the pilots being trigger happy, this was in the middle of a freaking war.

[solmar_israel]

"With heros like Spector it's no wonder Israel finds little sympathy. "

I find it best to keep emotion out of my posts, relying instead on logic and fact. However, I'll make an exception for this quote.

Your comment is that of a complete idiot.

To smear the entire country of Israel over the insensitive remarks of a former pilot is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as claiming this as an example of why Israel recieves little sympathy.

In case you resently crawled out of a rock, the reason for the lack of sympathy is:
1. The world has always, and will always, HATE JEWS.
2. The Arabs have all the oil.

No more, no less.

[rmlew]

The USS Liberty was an unidentiofied ship in a war zone, hundreds of miles east of where the US government said our ships would be.
General FUBAR. Trigger-happy Israelis, secret espionage mission, naval misinformation given to a combattant in war, and a refusal by the US to provide a naval liason led to the attack.
There are a lot of people with blood on their hands here.

[Tailback]

I'm definately not defending the Israeli pilots in this instance because I doubt the truth will ever be known. That being said, in the first Gulf War, the second Gulf War, and the Afghanistan campaign (Pat Tillman) many instances of fratricide occured. The voice recording of an Apache helicoptor pilot destroying (unknowingly) a Bradley fighting vehicle and killing US troops comes vividly to mind. This was a terrible occurance and I hope this type of event never happens again. If this truly was a deliberate attack on a known US ship, I hope the people that ordered the attack burn in hell.