USS LIBERTY: THE FIFTH FLEET SACRIFICE-WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

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USS LIBERTY: The Fifth Fleet Sacrifice - Why did it happen?
By Debbie Menon
Payvand Iran News

“Truth and America’s honor were ignominiously sacrificed to provide cover for
Israel’s transparent lies and despicable act of perfidy.” -Phillip F. Tourney,
President USS LIBERTY Veterans Association, June 8, 2007, Marriott Courtyard,
VA.

We have long wondered, and conjectured, the “why” of the USS Liberty incident,
as it has become known and referred to; “incident” being an easier event to push
onto the back burner and forget while it simmers away harmlessly, unlikely to
boil over and burn the stew.

It was obvious that the Israelis knew at the time what they were doing, who they
were attacking and, long ago, I found from my research, sufficient evidence
myself, to prove it to my satisfaction at least.

The Commander of the Torpedo Boat Squadron who led the attack and whose boat
fired the torpedo which hit Liberty, Admiral Yomi Barkai, IDF (Navy) Retired,
went on to become the Chief of the Israeli Defense Forces Navy, largely because
of his excellent service in Motor Torpedo Boats, his program which developed the
IDF fast MTB missile weapons systems, and his combat record in attacking USS
Liberty.

Phil Tourney, who was on USS Liberty, and is obviously an interested
commentator, postulates a very reasonable and credible answer to “why” Liberty
was attacked.

Phil Tourney’s speech, USS Liberty survivor, at the No More wars for Israel

“Black Flag,” in furtherance of international political intrigues, in which one
ship in the US Navy and its crew, were selected and set-up for sacrifice to
US/Israeli International intervention objectives and political ambitions. His
“black Flag” is not the only creditable one which I have heard of in subsequent
years.

I know… Israel, Israel, Israel… it’s becoming tiresome, turning up Israel
under every stone. But, there they are! More and more of this stuff, and stuff
like this, are appearing everyday.

It is like Grace Halsell says it was, “what we did not know, and were shocked to
learn….” But, finding out and telling about it, are horses of different
colors, uphill battles, seldom won, which she describes as part of the problem
and amongst those things we “did not know.”

It is interesting that she wrote these years ago, during the Clinton
Administration. And, that she was once a speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson of USS
Liberty infamy!

A review of the USS Liberty story explains a lot of how and why we have arrived
at the state and conditions in which we currently find America and its
governance! Vis:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/18.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/dead_in_the_water.shtml

and this one: http://www.logogo.net/liberty.htm

and finally: http://www.gtr5.com/

The obvious incident is the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in
1967, in which out of 200 American sailors and Marines 34 were killed and rest
wounded, and rescue attempts by carrier-based aircraft were halted by McNamara &
Johnson personally. I’m not sure most Americans would know all the details of
this incident. Listen to the chilling accounts of survivors in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Jy6EDI_z0

You may not know of a book on it, written by an officer who was on the ship when
it was attacked. The book is Assault on the Liberty by James Ennes available
from Amazon.com, and well worth reading.

Several hours of reconnaissance by Israeli aircraft of a US ship flying US flags
and openly displaying its markings on the very distinctive ship color with which
US Navy warships are painted, was attacked that immediately knocked out all of
its radios (so the Israelis knew what ship they were attacking, and where those
radios were located — the one radio that was used to send out a distress call
was cobbled together from spare parts & usable pieces of the ones that had been
destroyed), then the torpedo attacks, the casualties, AND THEN the US Navy
carrier-based aircraft launched to its rescue — which could have saved many of
those casualties from happening — were called back twice by McNamara & Johnson.

It is relevant that the crew, when told to keep quiet, did so. And, they were
there and experienced the outrage first hand!

They were sailors, trained to obey, and subject to Military Law, and knew that
if they disobeyed those orders that they would be sent to prison and kept there.
And, they would not have been imprisoned for the true reasons given.

It is the same when troops commit war crimes at the command of seniors. It is
the troops who get the blame, and never the seniors. It was senior command,
beginning with the President of the United States, and trickling down from the
Secretary of Defense, through the chain of command all the way to the Commander
of the Sixth Fleet who betrayed these men.

Others, in previous wars, have been Court Martialled and shot for less.

Look up Operation Cyanide, Remembering The USS Liberty - Four Decades Later and
the clandestine involvement of US Air Force pilots and bombers in providing
aerial photo intelligence, and launching covert air strikes against Egyptian
forces during that war, and the possibility discussed in a series of recently
released BBC videos on the USS Liberty “incident”, in which the question of
whether the entire attack was not a joint US/Israeli black flag operation, set
up to look like an Egyptian attack on Liberty, which nearly provoked a
retaliatory nuclear strike against Cairo.

That might answer the “Why did it all happen in the first place?” question.

Is this yet another cockamamie conspiracy theory?

If it is, it is one of the most far out I have come across yet. And I am one
who believes that the first liar doesn’t stand a chance!

The USS Liberty Association has a Homepage at: http://www.gtr5.com/. These men
have worked hard and long, and at risk, to gather information on this story. It
was they whom we see speaking on the video link above.

Several Israeli motivations have been discussed over the years. The British said
that at least one Israeli objective was to keep the US from warning off Jordan,
which in those days was the only Arab country that had reasonably good relations
with the US, and the Israelis dearly wanted to sucker Jordan into the war so
they could more easily take the West Bank and East Jerusalem. (The Brits thought
the Israelis would have attacked Jordan anyway, but they wanted it the other way
around if they could manage it.) The French said it was to impress on all Arab
countries that even then, only a decade after their decision to put AIPAC &
company into high gear, Israel had the US (or at least its government) so firmly
under its influence that it could even attack a US Navy ship and kill Americans,
and get away with it. Personally I think both are correct, but the French
argument probably cuts closer to the bone

The significant point Ennes and the Liberty Association makes is that the US
Congress has never conducted an official hearing or investigation of the case,
the only “investigation” which was conducted so far was the one Ward Bond and
the US Judge Advocates Officer referred to as a “cover-up,” conducted under an
inadequate deadline and which the evidence did not support the findings, and the
originator was not asked to review before its release, and who found missing
parts when he eventually got to read it.

It would be extremely important, today, to have a Congressional hearing,
publicly, on TV with all the fanfare that we have become so accustomed to
watching on American TV.

This incident is not an isolated piece of deception where a few men were
sacrificed to “other interests.” A few thousand more American servicemen have
just been sacrificed in the Middle East, along with nearly two million foreign
civilians and defenders of their homes… not to mention the ongoing slaughter
in Palestine.

Note in Ennes’ book his “theory” of why the attack, when he describes the
assassination of hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war! That was a war crime!
Cut and dried, black and white, in an official war! They took prisoners out,
made them dig their own graves, and shot them in the heads with an Uzi.

These are the people who are dropping bombs and launching missiles into civilian
neighborhoods in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq and threatening to obliterate Iran,
if.

In 1947, before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, His Majesty, the late King Abdullah
of Jordan made an honest, truthful and wonderful appeal for understanding,
sympathy and support to the American public The Hashemites - As the Arabs See
the Jews Nothing has changed!

I do not see how we can discuss Middle East issues without considering the
interests and influence of Israel, nor how we can discuss American politics and
US domestic and foreign policy without considering the interests and the
influence of AIPAC and other Zionist lobbies and organizations.

The Biden, Emanuel, Clinton, and older Clinton staff connections with Israel and
Zionism are all too close for comfort. That is why I wonder, and question, just
who is running America, American politics and American policy.

A “doubter” (or an ADL “defender”) asked the question, “But how could such a
small percent of the US population assert such an influence in government and
politics?”

I furnish an answer via this URL:
http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html. (Google “Dual citizenship”) it is a
list, and it treats the question of serving two masters (from the “proper”
perspective according to Debbie) as well as how it is against US Law, but
Israelis are exempted as unique cases. How about that?

It is but one of many answers. Many of the names were involved in the Clinton
administration, and I suspect we shall see many of them arise again in the near
future in positions strategic to Israeli interests first.

If the facts are true and accurate, then they are facts. Factual lists of people
who actually exist, and who hold important or influential positions in
government at policy-making levels. This list doesn’t include US Ambassadors in
countries of strategic importance to Israeli interests. Go figure!

Now, tell me again who runs America? And who frames US/Middle East Policies?

Given the ethnic, religious and economic group identities, how do they compare
proportionally with their representation in the general public? I suspect they
far exceed the normal distribution of ethnicity in the general public, as they
do in the financial centers and Industry which has precipitated the current
economic crisis which is destroying monetary and economic systems throughout the
world.

I do not consider myself a racist, religious or a sexist bigot, and I certainly
object to the Zionist charges that criticism of Zionism, Israeli politics or
national policy is racist, anti-Semitic, or religious anti-Jewish bigotry. I
recognize acute distinctions between Israel, Zionism, Jewry, and Semites which
AIPAC and some of the other Zionist First and defense organizations recklessly
ignore when they levy broad and general ad hominem attacks and charges of
bigotry against any critics of Israeli political, national or jingoist policies,
activities and meddling in US politics and national affairs.

There is no excuse or reason why any American politician who represents
Americans first should campaign in Tel Aviv, and kowtow at conventions of
foreign dominated and funded Political Action Committee conventions in the
manner we have witnessed on the part of ALL of the recent candidates and,
historically, during the Clinton administration as well as the recent campaigns.

I have serious doubts that Israeli interests are consistent with the best
interests of America and the American people! They certainly do not make a
solid platform for peace in the East, or anywhere else in the world.

When you look at everything which is happening in the Middle East, and most of
the rest of the world, through these lenses, it all seems to make sense.

As Henry Ford said, it may all be a sham, but it sure describes accurately what
has happened and is happening.

And, as Gilad Atzmon has said, “when you have all those people thinking alike,
you don’t need a conspiracy.”

And Mahatma Gandhi said then, and I reiterate today:

“Journalism has become the art of “intelligent anticipation of events.” Perhaps
we may yet wake up the mainstream sheeple.

March 22, 2009 Posted by Farhud NEWS & POLITICS 7 day war, Arab, Arab Israeli War, current events, Debbie Menon, Human rights, Israel, Israeli Defense force, Israeli Military, middle east conflict, Palestine, U.N., USS Liberty, world Events, yom kupor war, Zionisim 1 Comment