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"I can say unequivocally that the Liberty tragedy was a terrible accident, that the Israeli pilots involved believed they were attacking an enemy ship," Regev said. "This was in the middle of a war. This is something that we are not proud of."
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Even if you suspend common sense for a moment and believe that some of the best-trained pilots in what was then called the Free World couldn't recognize the Liberty as a United States Ship, the lying sack of shi, er, embassy spokesman doesn't even address the follow up wave
S of attacks by torpedo boats.
And they are so "not proud" of it that they have the helm of one of the attacking torpedo boats in a fucking museum. Maybe we should build a museum and display Lt. Caley's M16? Frankly, I am as offended by that as I am sure an Israeli would - and should - be offended by someone placing the wheelhouse of the SS St. Louis in a museum as a token of honor, not evidence of a horrible mistake.
There has never been a doubt in my mind that Johnson ordered the cover up. Moorer, however, is just about as honorable in this situation as McNamara was in his memoirs on Vietnam. If Johnson ordered the coverup, the dirt was thrown in the faces of those sailors by HIM on HIS watch. I don't buy the political reasons for the coverup. The real reasons for it - like the reasons for the attack - will probably stay in the murky world of intel forever.