[rmvh]

Re your # 46...

In the first Place, The Liberty was not a battleship as your respondent claimed.

On that June day in 1967, the weather was beautiful... Clear and sunny, visibility unlimited... the LIBERTY, an elaborate state-of-the art intelligence gathering platform, was in international waters off the Gaza strip and was flying the Stars and Stripes.

Israeli reconnaissance planes flew overhead for hours.Pilots and ship's crew waved to each other. Then, inexplicably, unmarked Israeli aircraft began attacking the ship.

This is not a harmless fairy tale as the "merry little band of apologists" would have you believe. An enormous number of American's were killed. Israel wants all Americans to "just forget about it."

Nice.

[aristeides]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that Neophyte called the Liberty a battleship. Of course, you're right that it was no such thing. It was a former supply ship that had been converted into an intelligence-gathering platform, as you say. It had minimal ability to defend itself, unlike a battleship.

I guess the propagandists think it sounds less bad if the ship the Israelis attacked was a big mean battleship.