[ballplayer]

MISTAKEN confrontation ?? ACCIDENTALLY on purpose you mean

[Little Ray]

Nope.
The Israelis asked the US Ambassador about US vessels in the war zone and were told there were none. So, they attacked a suspicious ship in the war zone. Unfortunately, that ship was the USS Liberty.
Our fault.

[Soliton]

After ten official US investigations (including five congressional investigations), there was never any evidence that the attack was made with knowledge that the target was a US ship. There is substantial evidence the attack was a tragic mistake caused by blunders of both the US and Israel. Eight US presidents, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton, and Bush (43), have each accepted the conclusion that the attack was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Nevertheless, conspiracy theorists continue to claim the Israelis knowingly attacked a US ship. By some estimates, there are more conspiracy theories about the Liberty incident than about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

http://www.thelibertyincident.com/

The muzzies are scared we will support Israel bombing Iran. They drag out the Liberty every time. They are simply trying to divide us.

[meema]

MISTAKEN confrontation ?? ACCIDENTALLY on purpose you mean

Exactly! I'm so tired of hearing our govt using this excuse for the attackers!!! We are supposed to believe that those big AMERICAN FLAGS on this ship couldn't be seen by the great Israeli military? Nonsense.

[djf]

Don’t worry. They’ll come up with a nice, tidy answer absolving everybody.

After all the guys who were on that boat are dead.
I mean those who weren’t killed during the attack itself.

[Natchez Hawk]

Careful bud, where do you think you are? America? ;=)