Your account of the USS Liberty attack is bias and flawed at best. The USS Liberty attack was a mistake. The Israelis were being fired upon by a ship in the region and thought it was the Liberty. There was an Egyptian ship in the area and it was possible Israel thought this was that ship. The US Navy itself also investigated and determined that it was a mistake. Israel did compensate the US for this error and loss of life. During the Gulf War there were dozens of soldiers injured or killed by "friendly fire." -- The Philadelphia Talk Radio Politics and Opinion Forum

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Date Posted: 02:37:58 03/08/03 Sat
Author: William
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Subject: Your account of the USS Liberty attack is bias and flawed at best. The USS Liberty attack was a mistake. The Israelis were being fired upon by a ship in the region and thought it was the Liberty. There was an Egyptian ship in the area and it was possible Israel thought this was that ship. The US Navy itself also investigated and determined that it was a mistake. Israel did compensate the US for this error and loss of life. During the Gulf War there were dozens of soldiers injured or killed by "friendly fire."
In reply to: Chris Henry 's message, "Talking about hypocrisy and sinking ships, do you remember when USS Liberty was attacked in 1967 with the loss of 34 American lives, watched by one of our surveillance aircraft flying overhead? Do you want us to declare war on Israel? How about the country that illegally captured USS Pueblo? The same one that is now sticking a finger up at us, Japan, South Korea? Are we going to attack them? Not on your life, far too dangerous, let's indulge them like spoilt children, we only want to attack weak countries where we have a chance of winning." on 04:56:55 03/04/03 Tue

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[> [> [> In Iraq our own jets fired on and brought down two of our own helicopters. It happens during a war. USS Liberty was fired upon on day four of the six day war of 1967. I question your claim that there was US surveillance aircraft in the area watching the whole event. At that time the US did not with to provoke the Soviet Union and tried to stay out of the region.

Regarding North Korea: Have you noticed that China, Japan, and South Korea have been doing virtually nothing to control North Korea? Has the whole world gone to sleep? -- William, 02:49:14 03/08/03 Sat (cache-mtc-ah04.proxy.aol.com/64.12.96.169)

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