Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Bob Ackley:

 MG>> Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 BA>>> Note that then president Johnson *ordered* the admiral commanding
 BA>>> Sixth Fleet to recall the aircraft that had been launched to go to
 BA>>> Liberty's rescue.  It took the Sixth Fleet the better part of a day
 BA>>> to get ships to the Liberty's location.

 MG>> and what Johnson did is Israel's fault how? Are you going to try and
 MG>> convince us that tiny little Israel (about the size of New Jersey
 MG>> without as many people) somehow forced the most powerful man in the
 MG>> world (at that time) to do something against his will?

 BA> I didn't say that Israel *told* Johnson to order the rescue mission
 BA> aborted, I
 BA> said he did it.  It is only Israel's fault in that they attacked the
 BA> Liberty in
 BA> the first place.

Attacked an intelligence gathering ship while there was a war going on.

 BA> Insofar as whether or not he was *forced* to do so, there is a large
 BA> bloc of
 BA> votes in the US and particularly in the US Congress that is very
 BA> pro-Israel. That bloc would have taken a very dim view of any retaliatory

*WAS* pro Israel,in the 60s the US was pro Israel. This month Mrs Willy is
giving false so called "palestinians" millions and millions of
dollars. How many Americans are protesting that?

 BA> action  Johnson might have taken against Israel.  And, of course, no
 BA> retaliatory action  *was* taken.

Of course not; it is perfectly legitimate to attack a ship (an espionage
ship) for spying on you during time of war.
-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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