Posted on 07/02/2008 10:22:56 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
It has been established [http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/obama-campaign-sanctioned-anti-semitic-and-other-hate-speech/] that Barack Obama’s official campaign site exercises editorial control over the content of my.barackobama.com, and is capable of finding and removing “offensive” and “disrespectful” material within two days. The following has been online for almost three weeks. It accuses Israel of deliberatly murdering the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty, American Jews with divided loyalties of complicity, and John McCain’s father of complicity in a cover up. The following entry is sanctioned (tolerated) by Barack Obama’s official campaign...
Now, we come to what has happened in the past few years. A man called A. J. Cristol, a Jewish bankruptcy judge from Florida, wrote a book called THE LIBERTY INCIDENT, in which he says Israel is exonerated for the attack on the LIBERTY because it was a case of mistaken identity. The book is full of lies, falsehoods and continues the cover-up for Israel’s blatant murder of American sons on the high seas. The survivors call this book a bunch of hog wash. Guess who endorses this book as factual? YEP! You guessed it - Senator John McCain. He knows all about the cover-up on the LIBERTY attack but he follows in his father’s footsteps and praises this piece of garbage. He, along with his father, has the blood of the LIBERTY crew on his hands.
... All McCain cares about is the Jewish vote and pleasing Israel. No one should be allowed to get by with murder, not even Israel nor our elected officials. They all should be held accountable for the murders and wounding of Americans and the subsequent cover-up, especially Senator John McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
Doesn’t leave much to the imagination, does it?
Hussein is an Arab. I have no doubt.
No matter how much you [and I] detest Obama, this has no bearing on the fact that Israel intentionally fired on the U.S.S. Liberty and killed a number of American sailors and that our government intentionally covered it up.
Meanwhile, at the United Nations, United States Ambassador Goldberg announced, in response to Arab complaints that the U.S. and British were supporting Israel in the conflict, that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict.[8](p.21) At the time the statement was made, this was the case, since the Liberty was just entering the Mediterranean Sea [8] but would ultimately steam to within a few miles of the Sinai Peninsula. On the night of June 7 Washington time, early morning on June 8, 0110Z or 3:10 AM local time, the Pentagon issued an order to Sixth Fleet headquarters to tell the Liberty to come no closer than 100 nautical miles (185 km) to Israel, Syria, or the Sinai coast (Oren, p. 263). [1](pages 5 and Exhibit N, page 58). According to the Naval Court of Inquiry [2] (page 23 ff, p. 111 ff) and National Security Agency official history [8] (pp. 21-23), the order to withdraw was not broadcast on the frequencies that the Liberty crew was monitoring for orders until 1525 Zulu, hours after the attack, due to a long series of administrative and communications problems.Our ambassador said no American ships were within a hundred miles of the conflict, while the Liberty (due to communication failures, the same kind that allowed Japan's success at Pearl Harbor) entered the war zone. A cluster foul-up waiting to happen, and it did.
Good to know.
I'd be sorry to see Obama elected, but a glimmer of sanity and truthfulness in our relations with the state of Israel would be a not-insignificant consolation prize.
Maybe A+bert can come back for his comic relief on this issue.
The attack was deliberate and they honestly expected the vessel to sink with all hands. They shot up the life boats as well as the rest of the forward part resulting in it being totaly unseaworthy. The capt and crew of CTs sailed that vessel 700 miles backward into port with no life boats. The Johnson Administration had sixth fleet recall all aircraft before they could come to their aid.
Admiral McCain was CINCPACFLT at the time of the attack. He was later appointed to head a court of inquiry. Unfortunately, much of the logs and messages were conviently kept from the court. The cover up was accomplished by the Johnson Administration and not by any group of officers on a court of inquiry. The military didn’t have the authority, power or brass balls to conceal the facts from congress or the public. Congress was controlled by the Democrats at the time with us up to our eye balls in Vietnam.
Assuming that blaming (and punishing, I suppose) Israel for the 1967 Liberty incident is “a glimmer”, what the whole “sanity and truthfulness in our relations with the state of Israel” in your opinion would come to?
If this is true, did they know that the Liberty was an American ship? I read at the time that the Israelis mistook it for an Egyptian ship.
Well, allot of idiots on this website agree.
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There are a lot of people on THIS website that say the same thing.
Israel did indeed attack the Liberty knowing it was a US warship, and they did indeed knowingly kill our men. I applaud Obama for his willingness to expose that incident for what is was. Better than I can say for ALL of the Presidents from that time forward.
I have kept up with this incident since it happened, and have yet to see ANYTHING that would lead me to believe it was an accident. Careful analysis showed why the ship was attacked and that it was done very much on purpose.
It was flying a HUGE US flag, hailing the attacking planes on all frequencies, including pre-arranged US-Israel frequencies, and had men on the deck trying to wave them off. We identified those tiny little specs in the sky as Israeli ... do you suppose the Israeli were the sight impaired with that large ship?
The Egyptions had no ship even closely resembling the Liberty. Israeli pilots are well trained and well briefed before making an attack.
Do your homework.
It would start by recognising that our interests and theirs may overlap at points but at other points are quite distinct.
LOL! I haven't thought of that crank in forever.
Just because the ship displayed an American flag doesn’t necessarily indicate that it was American. During World Wars I and II, ships, especially those of the Central and Axis powers, often flew flags of countries other than their own.
In any case, it is safe to assume that had the ship not been hanging around in the middle of a war zone, it would not have been attacked.
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