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RagingDebate.com - mulligan
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What a bunch of garbage.

RagingDebate.com - Augustus
Augustus

An excellent and brave piece of work! Look beyond the mass media spin and observe the raw footage of what has been taking place in the Middle East. Foreign Policy is at the core of America's woe's right now - just research the cost in the trillions of the various  police actions headed by the US that have been masked as wars with so called Islamist Extremists.  The US Govt. is creating a mortal enemy that will not give up. An invasion of Pakistan or Iran is insane and will bring forth a potential WWlll and lets not forget a possible new police action in Yemen! Israel has now taken almost 80% of what had been Palistinian land and the remainder is cordoned off or blocked or check pointed making life for the Palestinian people a living hell on earth. We here in the US get such filtered coverage of what goes on in these areas of the world. 

RagingDebate.com - Retro
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In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel's attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship.

Only hours after the Liberty arrived it was spotted by the Israeli military. The IDF sent out reconnaissance planes to identify the ship. They made eight trips over a period of three hours. The Liberty was flying a large US flag and was easily recognizable as an American vessel.

A few hours later more planes came. These were Israeli Mirage III fighters, armed with rockets and machine guns. As off-duty officers sunbathed on the deck, the fighters opened fire on the defenseless ship with rockets and machine guns.

A few minutes later a second wave of planes streaked overhead, French-built Mystere jets, which not only pelted the ship with gunfire but also with napalm bomblets, coating the deck with the flaming jelly. By now, the Liberty was on fire and dozens were wounded and killed, excluding several of the ship's top officers.

The Liberty's radio team tried to issue a distress call, but discovered the frequencies had been jammed by the Israeli planes with what one communications specialist called "a buzzsaw sound." Finally, an open channel was found and the Liberty got out a message it was under attack to the USS America, the Sixth Fleet's large aircraft carrier.

Two F-4s left the carrier to come to the Liberty's aid. Apparently, the jets were armed only with nuclear weapons. When word reached the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara became irate and ordered the jets to return. "Tell the Sixth Fleet to get those aircraft back immediately," he barked. McNamara's injunction was reiterated in saltier terms by Admiral David L. McDonald, the chief of Naval Operations: "You get those fucking airplanes back on deck, and you get them back down." The planes turned around. And the attack on the Liberty continued.

After the Israeli fighter jets had emptied their arsenal of rockets, three Israeli attack boats approached the Liberty. Two torpedoes were launched at the crippled ship, one tore a 40-foot wide hole in the hull, flooding the lower compartments, and killing more than a dozen American sailors.

As the Liberty listed in the choppy seas, its deck aflame, crew members dropped life rafts into the water and prepared to scuttle the ship. Given the number of wounded, this was going to be a dangerous operation. But it soon proved impossible, as the Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire. No body was going to get out alive that way.

After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. An officer asked in English over a bullhorn: "Do you need any help?"

The wounded commander of the Liberty, Lt. William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically: "Fuck you."   

by Jeffrey St.Clair.

RagingDebate.com - Anonymous
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but obama is going the give isreal fast rail on the east coast, on top of their govt welfare checks to the chosen land o shoot thy neighbor.

RagingDebate.com - Anonymous
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should give the united states to isreal. they already own the govt and the finance industry. 

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