Remember the USS LIBERTY

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

My fellow Americans, I
sit here at 3:00 am with my heart racing and my hands shaking and I ask
that you please take a moment to read my letter. I ask not that you
read it for my sake, but rather for your own and for your children and
grandchildren.

JUNE 8, 1967, during
the Six Day War, we came as close to a nuclear war than anytime in
history and it scares me to death as it should you. For the benefit of
those who do not know what happened (the result of a deliberate
campaign of cover-up and censorship by a Zionist-owned media in
America) I will give you a quick history lesson. It all started on a
beautiful bright, sunny day 40 years ago. Our ship, the USS LIBERTY,
was sailing off the coast of Sinai, doing 5 knots. The LIBERTY was the
most sophisticated intelligence gathering platform in the world at that
time. We were in international waters gathering intelligence, plucking
it from the air, which we had every right to do. We were doing what our
government ordered us to do.

Early in the morning
we began to see Israeli aircraft coming very close to our ship, some so
close we could see the pilots waving at us. As we waved back we could
clearly see the Star of David on the aircraft. This went on for many
hours. Our flag was flying (as always) GTR-5 was painted on both sides
of her bow and "USS LIBERTY" was clearly painted on her stern. There
could be no mistake as to who we were. Israel knew we were American and
we knew we had been identified as American and friendly as the Israelis
themselves have since admitted. They plotted us on their war table and
made positive ID of our ship as the LIBERTY. The crew all knew the war
was still ongoing and we all took comfort in the fact that our Israeli
'friends' had come to visit us. It made all of us feel safer, just in
case one of the Arab combatants got spunky and came after us as we all
knew Israel would be there to protect their American friends and allies.

We had been on station
for approximately 7 to 8 hours. Suddenly, at 2:00 all hell broke loose.
We were being attacked by jet aircraft. On their first pass they took
out our 4 fifty-caliber machine guns, all of our antennae and our moon
dish. Everything we had to communicate with was destroyed. They
continued their air assault for about 30 minutes using rockets, canons
and napalm which they dropped on the bridge to try and burn us alive.
Fifteen minutes into their vicious attack Terry Halbadier got an
antenna to work and we began broadcasting "under attack, under attack by unknown jet aircraft."
The jets were unmarked, hiding the identity of our attackers. The USS
SARATOGA, commanded by Captain Tully, sent aircraft to our aid only to
have them recalled by voice from Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara.
Again, Captain Tully ordered rescue aircraft to come to our aid. Then,
President Lyndon Johnson got on the phone and ordered the recall
himself, saying "I don't give a God damn if every man on board that ship dies, I will not embarrass our ally, Israel."

Now, if we didn't know
who was attacking us until much later into the attack how did the poll
cat Johnson know it was the Israelis that were attacking us? The reason
is simple–we were set up by our own government as pawns to let Israel
have her way with us. Why else would our government recall the
life-saving aircraft when we were still under attack?

When the jets got
through with us they sent the torpedo boats, three of them. Then and
only then did we become aware of who was attacking us. We could see
their flags on their boats with the Star of David on them. We were
horrified that our so-called 'ally' was doing this to us. The word went
out we were under attack by Israeli torpedo boats. This was picked up
as far away as Vietnam and many other listening posts around the world.
Still no help from our government. We were on our own.

The torpedo boats
fired five torpedoes at us, one hitting its mark midships, instantly
slaughtering 25 American sons. The torpedo boats kept up the attack, I
guess, until they ran out of ammunition, shooting at our boilers,
firefighters, stretcher bearers, anything that moved. The captain
ordered us to prepare to abandon ship.

We put over 3 life
rafts, all that remained that would float. We were going to put our
most severely wounded men in them. The Israelis would have none of that
and shot two of them out of the water and took one aboard their boat as
a trophy.

The torpedo boats left
and then came Israeli helicopters with armed troops, ready to board our
ship and finish us off. They hovered over us like vultures ready for
the kill and suddenly they left. We found out later that they left
because they knew we had gotten messages out that it was Israel doing
the murdering not any Arab state.

When all was said and
done in this almost two hour attack, 34 men were murdered, 174 were
wounded. There were over 821 canon and rocket holes in our ship.
Thousands of 50 caliber armor piercing bullets riddled her skin and
there was a 40 x 40 foot torpedo hole in her side. The LIBERTY was the
most heavily damaged ship in modern history including WWII.

We did not receive any
help from our government for 18 hours after the attack when help was
only 15 - 20 minutes away. Why was our government willing to sacrifice
294 American sailors, marines and the finest intelligence ship in the
world? That's what we all were wondering. A few days later, Admiral
Isaac Kidd came aboard our ship and ordered every crewman never to
speak a word about what happened to us to other crewmen, parents,
family, no one under penalty of prison or worse and we all knew what
worse meant.

We took the ship to
Malta. The dead were removed from the torpedo space and the ship was
repaired and painted to look brand new, as if nothing had ever happened.

I stayed silent for
many years. I was so afraid to say anything as was the rest of the
crew. In about 1983-1984 I read a book called "Assault on the Liberty"
by James Ennes Jr., an intelligence officer onboard when we were
attacked. I began asking questions of the navy, congress, anyone I
could write to find out answers to a simple question - why our
government went along with the cover-up as it is still doing today. The
standard answer you get from congress is there have already been many
investigations which is a bold face lie and I have told them that. All
you have to do is check the congressional record and you will see there
has never been any investigation except for the sham Board of Inquiry
which was a white wash and only took 6 days to complete. Isaac Kidd
signed off on it as did Captain Ward Boston, Admiral John McCain Jr.
and President Lyndon Johnson all in a matter of 10 days. The
conclusion? Mistaken identity!! Captain Boston has recanted what was in
the Board of Inquiry as a pack of lies. He was ordered to sign off by
none other than Admiral John McCain Jr., Senator McCain's father.

The fact is we were
set up to sink fast, blame it on Egypt and bring the U.S. into the war.
This was the deal made by our government and the Israeli Government.
This government will not help us get the truth out. They are knee-deep
in bed with the Israeli Lobby, AIPAC and every other Israeli interest
out there. Our elected officials sold us out then and they are still
selling us out now. Israel is committing war crimes on Americans and
our government could care less. This country is not "We the Government"
it is "We the People" and if we don't take our government back soon it
is nobody's fault but our own.

What I found out later
is our government was 120 seconds away from dropping nuclear bombs on
Cairo, Egypt and they would have if the LIBERTY would have sunk. The
LIBERTY staying afloat was an act of God. He kept us afloat to tell you
the truth. If our government would have nuked Cairo you can bet the
Soviet Union would have retaliated in kind on the American people. This
was a pact with the devil with only the greater interest of Israel in
mind.

My fellow Americans,
look what is going on in the Middle East today. It all goes back to the
Six Day War 40 years ago. We need you to email your representatives in
Congress and demand an investigation into the attack on the LIBERTY.
Remember, they work for us, we don't work for them. As futile as it may
seem, we must at least TRY to take our country back from Israel before
it is too late, if indeed it is not already.

Miracles have hinged
on smaller odds than this. Look at what happened to us 40 years ago–we
should have been dead, sunk to the bottom of the sea and yet we stayed
afloat, as I said, by the hand of God. It was a miracle. Remember,
Israel didn't just attack the LIBERTY, she attacked America with our
government's help, and remember, as the old saying goes, 'A leopard does not change its spots'.
What this gang of criminals has done once it will do again, and this
time, chances are that we will not be as lucky as we were 40 years ago.
Despite all the propaganda we hear, Israel is not our friend. No friend
treats us as she has. She would just as soon slit our throats as look
at us, and this is not a theory, it is a fact proven by history.

Phillip F. Tourney, Survivor June 8, 1967