Lieberman pulls "Israel" card on Dean......

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I served with a Radioman First Class on duty in the communications center of the Liberty when they sustained a 4+ hour attack by Israeli aviation and surface units. The Liberty, btw, was more lightly armed than the USS Pueblo that the North Koreans captured almost two years later. Israeli forces attacked a U.S. ship flying the U.S. flag (several - they shot increasingly larger flags off the ship as the day went on) in International waters.

Why, the "strain in the relationship" was so profound that it took YEARS of pressure by survivors to get any kind of explanation from the U.S. Government - and the responses to this day by the government of Israel make RMN's "I am not a crook" look like he bared his soul.

It must have been the tremendous strain on the relationship between the two countries that caused the surviving crew to be threatened with Courts-Martial if they talked about what happened to them. That so-called strain must explain the tremendous lengths to which the Johnson (and subsequent) administrations went to keep this story from seeing the light of day.

Strain on the relationship? Bullshit.