Phil Kane wrote:
On 18 Apr 2005 20:40:56 -0700, Mike wrote:

As well as the NSA/USN brass who, when queried by the Israelis,
adamantly denied that the Liberty was a U S Naval vessel even
after
being told that the vessel wiil be blown out of the water if it
wasn't a US Naval vessel.

Not even the Israelis (meaning the ACTUAL Israeli gov't) has ever
made
such a claim.

The Israelis had every reason to believe
that the Egyptians or their mentors, the Soviets, would fly the
US
flag to avoid destruction if they could get away with it.

Not even the Israelis (meaning the ACTUAL Israeli gov't) have ever
made
such a claim at stated here.

And the NSA kept denying...

And the GOI has never made the above claim ...

Of course not, governments never reveal such stuff,

Ah, gov'ts are made up of people. Those people involved have never,
ever made the claim you are stating.

but every
Israeli in "the business" (where I worked) knows that that was the
case.

That's quite some claim to be making. In all the years, not one peep
from those "in 'the business'" (as you call it) who would have been
part of (you guessed it) the GOI ...

I don't dishonor the memory of the sailors killed aboard the USS
Liberty. They didn't have to die.

Correct, they sure as hell didn't!

I dishonor their superiors who
never took responsibility for not preventing what happened.

Ah, there was no way any component of the US gov't was going to prevent
the IDF from screwing up!

The popular term is "sh*t happens!", and during a war is can happen a
lot ...

MW