Get ready to be flamed!
Would you be just as interested in not letting the anniversary pass without acknowlegement?
Yes, it’s often been discussed on FR.
I think that probably Israel did attack the Liberty knowing that it was an American ship. And I think the reason they attacked it was because Lyndon B. Johnson was using the Liberty to help provide information to Israel’s enemies in that war.
I don’t fault the Captain and the crew of the Liberty for that. They were following orders and doing their job. But I do fault LBJ, who may have been Israel’s worst enemy in the White House until Obama came along. Worse than Jimmy Carter, if that’s possible.
Just my opinion. We don’t know what happened for sure.
Similarly, I don’t fault the U.S. military who fought in the war against Yugoslavia, but I do fault clinton, for fighting that war on the wrong side, against our national interests.
Incoming!
You forgot to mention that they machine-gunned a bunch of American sailors in life-boats.
And that the only recorded occaision that a Congressional Medal of Honor has EVER been awarded in secret —EVER— was following this ambush....
I read somewhere that the Jews were behind this attack.
It was a 100 miles from its station.
Wow and to think you didn’t even have an account on here during the Last Anniversary so you obviously couldn’t have shared your views then.
Strange how Isreal is always the boogeyman to some.
U.S.S. Liberty [NSA declassified more documents on 40th anniversary]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847390/posts
June 2007)
New revelations in attack on American spy ship
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027677/posts
(June 2008)
Vets Seek Probe Of Israeli War Crimes (USS Liberty incident)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420173/posts
(June 2005)
Exclusive: Liberty attack tapes revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1148399/posts
(June 2004)
This reminds me of the anniversary of the jihadi down the street that backed over 299 of my brothers. There was no question of why, not even a chance it was accidental.
10/23/1983.
The ‘Firsters hate it when the Liberty is brought up. But I have noticed that the “we didn’t know” talking point is slowly being replaced with “But they were spying”! Left with no argument, they try to play the anti-semite card.
To: F15Eagle; mkjessup; Gene Lalor; All
Recently, Gene Lalor put up a USS Liberty thread and it was quickly taken down. I pointed out that the incident was well explained in the book “The Spymasters of Israel”. Since there have been many USS Liberty threads on FR in the past, I was surprised to find that there are no google hits for “USS Liberty” and “Spymasters of Israel” on Free Republic. So I’m reposting part of what I wrote here for future reference.
THE SHAME OF THE USS LIBERTY Dec 19, 2008 ... You need to read a book called “The Spymasters of Israel”. They detail that the USS Liberty was a signals intelligence ship and that it had ...
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2151823/posts - 37 minutes ago - Similar pages
44 posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:43:21 AM by Kevmo ( It’s all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
The Attack
After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft overflights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft nine hours before the attack and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.
The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.
The Cover Up
Despite a near-universal consensus that the Israeli attack was made with full knowledge that USS Liberty was a US Navy ship, the Johnson administration began an immediate cover-up of this fact. Though administration officers continued individually to characterize the attack as deliberate, the Johnson administration never sought the prosecution of the guilty parties or otherwise attempted to seek justice for the victims. They concealed and altered evidence in their effort to downplay the attack. Though they never formally accepted the Israeli explanation that it was an accident, they never pressed for a full investigation either. They simply allowed those responsible literally to get away with murder.
In an ongoing effort to reveal the truth about the attack, the USS Liberty Veterans Association has filed with the Secretary of the Army in the manner prescribed by law a detailed, fully documented Report of War Crimes describing the circumstances of the attack on our ship and evidence that it was a crime under international law. In accordance with international law and treaties, the United States is obligated to investigate the allegations. So far, the United States has declined even to acknowledge that the report has been filed. The full text of the report can be found at http://www.gtr5.com/evidence/warcrimes.pdf