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Please read my comments in #'s 11, 12, 32, & 45. Take note of the pictures in #45 with the captions below them.

"This is what Israel says they thought they were attacking)" & "USS Liberty".

A horse hauler (freighter) cannot do 28 knots..period. No freighter of the time could.

I am quite sure that the Israeli reconnaissance airplane that circled the ship about an hour before the attack recognized this was a warship. I know our P-3 crews would. I am positive that the torpedo boat crew knew this also before attacking.

I think these facts show that your statement of "I think that ~~the "takeaway" from this incident is that~~ it was STUPID policy to send slow, barely armed spy-ships into hostile waters!!!"

"slow, barely armed spy-ships" are not slow, they are barely armed though.

I resent our gov't LYING to the American people and I resent the Israel officials who wish to continue the LIE.

The only thing I see as being the reason for continuing this LIE is that some of these people are still alive and would go to jail.

A horse hauler (freighter) cannot do 28 knots..period. No freighter of the time could. I am quite sure that the Israeli reconnaissance airplane that circled the ship about an hour before the attack recognized this was a warship. I know our P-3 crews would. I am positive that the torpedo boat crew knew this also before attacking.

DEAR BIGOT:

The USS LIBERTY WAS A CARGO SHIP, NIT WIT, from World War II, that was converted to reconnaissance use! It was one of those extremely flimsy Victory ships churned out by the hundreds, some of which fell apart form their own defects in rough seas. My grandmother raised funds in Boston to pay for a Liberty ship to be built.

Meanwhile, you falsely pretend that the pilots were viewing two ships side by side. SHAME ON YOU! Not even a bigot can be that dumb! Surely you have looked down from an aircraft window at a boat in the water, and noticed how YOU CANNOT TELL THE SIZE of what you are looking at. Thee is no sense of scale against the water below. No one can be that dumb. You are simply allowing your hatred for America's allies and America's strategic relatoinships in the world to completely twist your thinking.