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OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS BY THE SURVIVORS OF THE
USS LIBERTY
December 26, 2007
I have been writing letters to our elected officials for the past 20
years, trying to get a congressional investigation into the deliberate
attack on the USS LIBERTY on June 8, 1967 by the government of Israel.
This atrocity and cold-blooded murder of America’s sons on the high
seas was an act of war against the United States of America, not to
mention the numerous war crimes committed against the crew of the USS
LIBERTY.
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America's Worst Attack In Years
Being that this is America where there exists at least a small
shred of freedom, including freedom of speech and the right of redress
to our government, let me speak to you then like an American, and as
you read this, remember something, you asked for it. A great man once
said ‘What you sow also shall you reap,’ and with that in mind what
you are about to hear from me–which mirrors the thoughts and feelings
of not only my fellow crew members but also a good portion of the
American people, is a badge that you have earned by your own actions,
so wear it with pride.
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Ass Kissing Stooges
You, our elected officials, are in truth nothing but a bunch of
stooges and front men for the government of Israel. Whatever Israel
wants, Israel gets, no matter what. If you don’t follow their every
want and need you won’t be in congress very long and you damned-well
know it. The power the Israeli Lobby has over you is only slightly
less sickening than what is your willingness to bow to their every
damned demand. You are as guilty of murdering my shipmates as the
Israelis are. You have their blood on your hands because you continue
to cover up the truth concerning what happened to them. In a better
time in America’s history, that would be considered treason, every bit
as much as Benedict Arnold attempting to turn over West Point to the
British during our own war for freedom. Were you ordinary people and
not members of the US Congress your crimes would be considered
accessory to murder and you would be put away for life.
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You took an oath to protect and serve and honor the Constitution of
the United States, not to serve Israel, and yet you serve the Jewish
state rather than your own nation and even when you know it’s wrong.
They are your masters and always will be until you get some backbone
and say ‘enough already’.
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Where Is The Congressional Investigation?
The USS LIBERTY Veterans Association wants a Congressional
investigation so that we–the survivors of the nearly-2-hour attack–can
be questioned in an open and fair hearing. If an American ship were
attacked by any other country, and especially by one of those other
Middle Eastern countries that are on Israel’s hit-list, you know
full-well that there would be investigations coming out our ears to
the point where no other business in Congress would be taking place.
Is this–a proper investigation into an act of war perpetrated against
the people of the United States–that too much to ask for our elected
members of Congress who swore of loyalty to the US by combat wounded
veterans who swore an oath to protect and serve this country? Many
gave their lives doing just that.
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But we know what is really going on here, don’t we now, Mr. or Mz.
Congressperson? We all know why a proper investigation cannot be
allowed to take place, which is that the truth will overcome the
mountain of lies that Israel has vomited out these 40 years about the
attack being a case of ‘mistaken identity’, and we all know what would
happen once the American people found out the truth, which is that
Israel would be cut off from Uncle Sam’s generous bank account, or
worse.
The last letter I got from my senator, Ken Salazar, on Nov. 27,2007
states as follows:
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Senator Salazar's Reply
“Dear Phil,
Thank you for your letter regarding the 1967 attack on the U.S.S.
Liberty. I appreciate hearing from you.
Multiple investigations have concluded that the Israeli forces who
attacked the ship mistook it for an Egyptian vessel. The Israeli and
U.S. governments closed the case in 1987, and the Israeli government
has paid more that $13 million in reparations.
At this time, I do not think an additional investigation is necessary.
Again, thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Ken Salazar
United States Senator
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No Inquiry, Just Subservience To Israelis
This was the standard form letter all of you send out to the
survivors and the public. In fact, there has been only one
investigation through the Board of Inquiry, which was a sham and
cover-up for Israel. Look in the congressional record, senator, and
show me where and when all of these ‘investigations’ took place. You
can’t, and for one simple reason–THERE NEVER HAS BEEN ANY, NOT ONE.
What you wrote me was a bold face lie and what that makes you sir is a
liar, despite your undeserved title of ‘Honorable’. The proof of this
is that a letter was sent from the Department of the Navy in response
to an inquiry by Congressman Robert Simmons from Connecticut. His
inquiry was made on March 16, 2005 and it clearly states that the
Navy’s 5-day sham investigation is the ONLY investigation ever made by
the U.S. Government, period! Check with your colleague for
verification. One of the men who signed off on the Board of Inquiry,
Captain Ward Boston, has recently come forward and said the Board of
Inquiry was a lie which he was ordered to produce. That order came
from none other than Admiral John S. McCain, Jr, Senator McCain’s
father and the inquiry that should have lasted at least 6 months by
Navy standards took less than ten days.
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The money Israel paid our government for the attack was given to
them by the U.S. Israel was out nothing, not one a dime. The ship
alone was worth $40 million, for God’s sake. Don’t you think that this
alone is proof of the US being short-changed? But then, this is what
always happens when you deal with Israel, and what we don’t give her
willingly she steals by spying. Case in point, Jonathan Pollard, and
who knows how many others.
By the way, Senator Salazar, in your letter you did not even
mention a word about the men murdered that day or the wounded, nor did
you say a kind word to their families for the heartaches they have
endured these last 40 years. That in itself is disgusting and
disrespectful towards the men and women who wear the uniform of the
U.S. military. Shame on you. You won’t honor our fallen heroes, you
could care less. I can say one thing for certain though, which is that
had you been there that day and experienced what we experienced or had
you lost a son or brother as a result of ‘our friend’ Israel, you
would not be so quick to give her a clean bill of health.
To all of you in Congress, once the American public finds out that you
have been covering up for the government of Israel and our government,
you will all be looking for new jobs, and that is putting it mildly.
Nobody wants a bunch of flunkies and liars working for them and never
before in the history of any nation have there been as many flunkies
and liars than the US Congress today.
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Traitors And A Parliament Of Whores
What better words define and describe the disloyal and treasonous
government officials, who on June 8, 1967 allowed over 200 American
sailors on the unarmed U.S.S. Liberty to be murdered and wounded in
broad daylight in international waters in what was a deliberate attack
by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats? Incredibly, these same
subservient public officials, apparently owing their allegiance to a
foreign entity, collaborated to protect a guilty Israel from public
condemnation and punishment by manipulating and relegating the bloody
massacre into a political black hole for four decades.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson and Sec of Defense Robert McNamara
qualified as co-perpetrators in treason by ordering and executing the
pull back of American aircraft responding to desperate calls from the
helpless Liberty crew, and permitting the massacre to continue.
Finally, the co-conspirators initiated and orchestrated a criminal
cover up that remains in place to this day.
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COWARDS
Every one of the faceless, gutless government officials and bureaucrats
who know the truth and dare not to act or speak out.
“PARLIMENT OF WHORES”*
*(Patrick J. Buchanan’s incisive characterization of Congress’s servile
sellout relationship with Israel.)
To date Congress has fearfully evaded and defaulted on its oversight
responsibility to conduct an independent and open investigation to expose
the truth of the deliberate and unprovoked attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by
Israel. In fact, no investigation has ever been held at any level of
government to investigate the Israeli treachery. Israeli political actions
committees paid off and threatened members of Congress well for the pass -
approximately $3,300,000.00 in the latest 2005-2006 election cycle, and
over $50,000,000.00 since 1978. Of course a grateful Congress has
reciprocated, having given lavishly to the Mideast mini state over
$100,000,000,000.00 of U.S. taxpayers’ money. A return on investment that
would put Warren Buffet to shame. Enough!
Allow the words of a few others finish this letter–“If American leaders
did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of
American citizens, their American friends would let them get away with
almost anything”–George Ball, Assistant Secretary of State, 1967
“The nation which indulges toward another… is in some degree a slave….a
passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of
evils.”–President George Washington farewell address, Sept.17, 1796
“Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of
Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken
on faith the word of their attackers.”–Dr. Richard Kiepfer, Capt. USN ret.
and USS Liberty survivor
Phillip F. Tourney, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and
contributing editor to American Free Press newspaper
tonktime5@yahoo.com
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