(Mike Weeks) wrote:
From: (Issac Goldberg) wrote:

[snip]

Congress never conducted an investigation solely concerning
the USS Liberty affair, and Cristol's web page does not refute
that.

LOL: Well it does appear this poster believes only what's available on the net
counts for anything and there's nothing else; what a strange world it must be.

Note: Weeks does not refute my statement. He can't.

He just muddies the waters with another of his typically
inane arguments.

Nowhere on Cristol's web page is there any evidence that
Congress conducted a thorough investigation of the
Liberty attack, nor is there any evidence of a
Congressional report which exonerates Israel.

Cristol's web page does link to the following
Congressional events:

1) An investigation of DOD communication failures, and

2) Hearings into the 1967 Foreign Aid Bill.

To say that Congress conducted a thorough investigation
of the attack on the Liberty based on the two events
cited by Cristol is a complete fabrication.

Since the two above Congressional events did not
concentrate on the question to whether the attack
on the Liberty was intentional, it is not
surprising that they "found no evidence that
the Israeli attack was intentional." One could
have just as easily said that Congress "found
no evidence that the Israeli attack was an
accident," since the attack itself was never
thoroughly investigated by Congress.

Let's see; still too lazy to actually read a book? If not, try "The Liberty
Incident",

Cristol's book incorrectly implies that Congress
conducted a thorough investigation of the Liberty
affair and exonerated Israel. However, since
there was no thorough investigation by Congress,
then there was no report stating that the attack
was an accident. To imply so is the kind of
dishonest truth bending that Bush used to
convince the American people to support the
invasion of Iraq. Bush implied that Saddam
was directly responsible for 9/11, without
actually saying it. Bush was so successful in his
deceit that a majority of the American people,
at the time of the last invasion of Iraq,
believed that Saddam was responsible for 9/11.
[Bush poll numbers continue to hit new lows,
now that his lies and half-truths have become
public knowledge.]

Q: If there had been a thorough Congressional
investigation of the attack on the Liberty which
produced a report exonerating the Israelis, then
why didn't Cristol include a link to that report?

A: There was no such report or investigation.