[bruinbirdman]

"Why Mullen was in Israel at all remains a mystery, and the fact that he spent two days there is even more surprising. Not only that but this week’s visit to Israel was the second since December by the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs. Further it followed a visit to Israel last week by two four-star U.S. Generals."

Time is running out in the Bush administration.

Talk about sending a message to Iran.

And the reports that Syria is considering throwing Iran under the bus?

All this psyops going on with the Axis of Evil and not a peep from the ChiComs or Rooskies?

[2ndDivisionVet]

A Vice Admiral has three stars, so that part is wrong. Why would either government bring up the USS Liberty incident? I could see the Obama administration doing this, but virtually no one else. That was 41 years ago!

[bruinbirdman]

Hmm. The Iraqis have been in quite the hurry lately to finish the domestic job vis a vis al-Qaeda and Sadr/Iranian surrogates. Hearing nothing but how Iraq forces are doing it themselves.

That would free up plenty of U.S. troops on Iran's wastern flank.

Hearing plenty about Pakistan steping up action against Taliban on the eastern Afghan/Pak border areas. There are a lot of U.S. forces on the eastern flank of Iran.

yitbos

[J Aguilar]

I am neither American nor Israeli. I've read about the attack on the Liberty and I find that it can be explained as an accident. I don't believe the Israeli torpedo boats, as far as I can remember, commanded by non-full time sailors, had properly identified the ship as American. I don't think Israel wanted to sink her either, because it would have been attacked with HE bombs, not strafed and rocketed.

Most of the victims came from a single torpedo explosion, that unfortunately occurred near a crew area. Beyond that, the buoyance of the ship was not compromised. She sailed half the Mediterranean along to Malta.