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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19216)	7/14/2003 2:03:20 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

NRO? What's that? :-) National Restaurant's Office, I think....<s> That contradicts the public sources, including the carrier captain. He was sending them to the Liberty. I won't argue that point. You didn't mention specific destination in your first post. I made a guess that you were referring to the Cairo track. Recalling air support destined for the Liberty is consistent with the amount of time it took for the Liberty to see anyone. It was the fleet that first showed up and helo to the Liberty. Except that the Egyptians have never made that claim and now have the Sinai and have surfaced no mass grave sites. I would think they would want to. I would flush that one. The reason the Israeli's attacked was because the Liberty was watching troop movements during the war via a satellite uplink and relaying that to the Egyptians. The US was trying to "balance" the war so Israel would not have such a overwhelming victory. I would flush that one also. There's no historical support for anything other than full support for Israel in the last 50+ years. Flush. Looked at your links...too convoluted...flush. I've heard some say that the incident was considered by the US government [multiple Administrations] to be an aberation; a one-off in the historical alliance. As such, they decided it was best to ignore the whole thing; never have a Congressional hearing on it [never tell anyone in Congress about it]; never ask for an apology....basically say nothing about it other than...it was an accident. And I don't have any serious disagreement with that as a plausible theory. I may not agree with that policy decision, but it is a plausible theory. jttmab