uss liberty attacked, why ?

[Icarus1 Profile]

why did johnston do nothing after the state of isreal murdered 34 of his citizans? its common knowledge that it was a spy boat for the nsa and was attacked because it had evidence of war crimes being carried out by isreali death squads on arab prisoners of war , many of whom had there hands tied behind there backs , but the question is why did the american government do nothing . a shamefull act OF COWARDICE by the administration

[Harbin Profile]

It was an accident.

[Icarus1 Profile]

GOOD EVENING HARBIN MY FRIEND

and how does one come to that conclusion/

[Flecktarn Profile]

johnston did as he was told by the zionists in the us goverment ,,,,,the usa got its ass kick and to this day have done nothing apart from giving israel billions of dollars worth of aid and military equipment ,,,so when the day comes again israel can kick its ass again with all its military gifts from the good old usa ,,,,,,whos scared of who ?????? and it was NO ACCIDENT

[Harbin Profile]

The Israeli argument:

"Liberty resembles the Egyptian supply ship El Quseir."

As partial justification for the attack, the Israeli government claimed that USS Liberty had been mistaken for the Egyptian freighter, El Quseir. They also claimed that such confusion is understandable, given the similarities between the two ships. In the alternative, they argue, USS Liberty could also have been mistaken for an Egyptian Z class destroyer.

The Israelis argue that USS Liberty and El Quseir are easily confused for the following reasons:

"We may note the following similarities between the two vessels:
A. Similar deck line
B. The bridge structure is in mid ship
C. A single smokestack in in mid ship
D. The "Liberty's" antennae on the aft and fore decks resemble "El Quseir's" masts.
E. The antennae on "Liberty's" fore deck resemble a gun"

http://www.usslibertyinquiry.com/arguments/american/elquseir.html

[Icarus1 Profile]

THE AMERICAN SLANT

Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote:

I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.[51]

Retired naval Lieutenant Commander James Ennes, a junior officer (and off-going Officer of the Deck) on Liberty's bridge at the time of the attack, authored a book titled Assault on the Liberty (Random House, 1980; Ballantine Books 1986; Reintree Press 2004) describing the incident during the Six Day War in June 1967 and claiming, among other things, it was deliberate. Ennes and Joe Meadors, another survivor of the attack, run a website[52] about the incident. Meadors states that the classification of the attack as deliberate is the official policy of the association, to which all known survivors belong. Other survivors run several additional websites. Citing Ennes's book, Lenczowski notes: Liberty's personnel received firm orders not to say anything to anybody about the attack, and the naval inquiry was conducted in such a way as to earn it the name of "coverup".[39]

In 2002, Captain Ward Boston, JAGC, U.S. Navy, senior counsel for the Court of Inquiry, claimed that the Court of Inquiry's findings were intended to cover up what was a deliberate attack by Israel on a ship it knew to be American. In 2004, in response to the publication of Jay Cristol’s book The Liberty Incident, which Boston claimed was an "insidious attempt to whitewash the facts" he prepared and signed an affidavit[53] in which he claimed that Admiral Kidd had told him that the government ordered Kidd to falsely report that the attack was a mistake, and that he and Kidd both believed the attack was deliberate. On the issue Boston wrote, in part:

The evidence was clear. Both Admiral Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack, which killed 34 American sailors and injured 172 others, was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew. Each evening, after hearing testimony all day, we often spoke our private thoughts concerning what we had seen and heard. I recall Admiral Kidd repeatedly referring to the Israeli forces responsible for the attack as 'murderous bastards.' It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received first hand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate, and could not possibly have been an accident.

[Flecktarn Profile]

[quote=telocvovim"]["quote="flecktarn"]johnston did as he was told by the zionists in the us goverment ,,,,,the usa got its ass kick and to this day have done nothing apart from giving israel billions of dollars worth of aid and military equipment ,,,so when the day comes again israel can kick its ass again with all its military gifts from the good old usa ,,,,,,whos scared of who ?????? and it was NO ACCIDENT[/quote]


yo fleck baby...

the devils rule ur country...

fukk...

one not so far day the truth will xplode!![/quote]


hows it going teloc ,my country sucks ,,,,might be time to move to koln and spend my days getting smashed on absinthe,,,back in my ancestors homeland

[Harbin Profile]

Why would President Johnson, the greatest head of state in the 1960's, not act if it was deliberate ?
How can an inquiry 37 years after the fact see the incident more clearly ?

Accident.