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To: Dayuhan who wrote (27798)	2/3/2004 11:17:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

Oh, not that old carnard again, we've already discussed it to death. The Liberty was an obvious screwup; a US ship was damn foolish to loiter in a warzone in the middle of a shooting war, and the Israelis had no motive, none on earth, to sink a ship of chief ally - and they didn't sink it. Halfway through the attack, they realized their mistake, and began offering apologies and assistance. If they wanted to sink it, why didn't they? Michael Orens goes into the incident in depth in Six Days of War. Some fighter pilot misidentified it as Egyptian, and somebody else miscalculated its speed. Screwups happen four days into a shooting war. You just don't need much proof if it's bad and it's about Israel, do you? Israel seems to be your great example of Original Sin, born guilty every one of them.