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Originally Posted by August
What strikes me as hard to believe with the intentional attack theory is all the firepower the Israelis are supposed to have used and they still couldn't sink the ship. Machine gunning the lifeboats and they still left enough of the crew alive to work the ship out of the danger zone.
Now i'm no expert, but it seems to me that if they really intended to sink the ship and murder the survivor/witnesses, then the Israelis did a strikingly lousy job of it.
A couple other things i'm wondering about:
A 6 hour timelag between recon and attack. Now a ship can cover a lot of distance in 6 hours, and i wonder, regardless of what the recon had identified her as, how the attacking planes knew it was the same vessel.
The second attack, (third if you want to count the boats seperate) an hour later was apparently called off at the last second because of a threat that if, if the attacks were intentional, had existed for at least 2 and a half hours.
What i do know is that flying a neutral flag is an old deception in naval warfare, nobody in Washington told the Isrealis that the Liberty was going to be there and even today friendly fire incidents are a fact of war.
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Ya can't keep kicking a man when he's down Damn!...Did they ever even fire a shot off in retalation?Don't matter if they were flying an alien flag, W.T.F. with shooting it relentlessly?...seems only logical explanation is they were tying to send it to the bottom as quickly as possible and only stopped when they thought US warplains were coming to intercept.The excuse that they didn'nt know who they were shooting is irrelevant..would it have mattered?To anhaliate a crew in this manner is a war crime in my book.