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ORIGINAL: DomKen

The Liberty incident has been investigated a whole lot by a lot of people. The consensus has always been that it was a massive fuck up by the IDF not some wild eyed conspiracy to start WW3.

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ORIGINAL: DCWoody

Create a false flag.....against a nation already at war with?

Shit happens, it's almost never a conspiracy. This wasn't.

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ORIGINAL: DCWoody

Damn, you people can never admit when you're wrong.

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Thompson, re your questions to me.

The Liberty was an intelligence gathering ship, so I suspect the Israelis could have been trying to keep things secret. I dont know enough to know if the Liberty could eavesdrop from where it was. I am assuming it could though.

The Liberty was attacked on the 8th. Operation Hammer, the codename for the attack on the Golan Heights, was launched the following day. This operation was initially cancelled then given the go ahead. I suspect Israel wanted to occupy the heights prior to any ceasefire. Moshe Dayan had said in his book that Israel always had an eye on the Golan Heights, and would send tractors into the area to tempt the Syrians to open fire. Sources are in the Wiki link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan#Six_Day_War_.281967.29

Who do you feel authorised the attack and why ?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

"PROOF? "

If you are asserting that those who served on that ship are lying, in what is almost a deathbed statement, sorry, the burden of proof is on you.

In fact instead of that, why don't you just tell us the reasons, in your own words, just why they would lie under these circumstances ? Explain it to me so I may understand better how these old Men are benefitting from their collective prevarication ?

T

No.

What I am asserting is it was the mistake the Israelis claimed it to be and the U.S. accepted.

And I'm getting fucking sick of what is supposed to be a board discussing politics and religion being turned into one conspiracy theory after another.