Cindy McCain says she doesn’t care about dead U.S.S. Liberty sailors

Cindy McCain says she doesn’t care about dead US sailors

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By Ray Hanania – Cindy McCain, the wife of Arizona Senator John McCain, probably didn’t know what she was getting into when she set up a “Fan Page” for herself on Facebook.

McCain suddenly noticed that several people who visited her page complained that her husband’s father had been involved in the cover up of the Israeli killing of 34 Americans on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967.

The people, many involved in the U.S.S. Liberty, were referring to the June 8, 1967 Israeli military assault on the American spy ship that was monitoring the events of the Arab-Israeli war. The ship was fully identified and flying the American flag when Israeli fighter jets and naval vessels began the assault.

When it was over, the Israelis had killed 33 of the ship’s military personnel and one civilian assigned to the ship’s mission. Why did the Israelis attack the U.S. ship?

No one really got to answer that question because it turns out that Senator John McCain’s father, Naval Commander John S. McCain, set up the Naval Inquiry into the Israeli assault and the killing of the 34 American soldiers. McCain quashed the investigation fearing it would damage American-Israeli relations. (Even in awarding citations to the heroic survivors of the attack, the United States deleted any reference to “Israel” as being the aggressor. Naming the foreign country that attacked an American soldier is standard procedure and included in all medals. President Lyndon Johnson at the time declined to present medals to the ship’s captain William McGonagle.)

Veterans of the Liberty who have spent decades investigating the issue conclude that Israel was preparing to attack Jordan in order to capture East Jerusalem. Two days earlier, Israel attacked Egypt alleging that Egypt’s President Nasser had been preparing to invade Israel. It was called a “pre-emptive Strike.”

The far superior Israeli army quickly destroyed the Egyptian military and turned its sights on Jordan. What better way to finally control East Jerusalem, which Israeli forces failed to do in 1948, than to invade under the cover of an Arab-Israeli war.

The Israelis feared the U.S.S. Liberty, which was monitoring communications on both sides, would alert the pro-Western Jordanian Government. And that’s when the attack began with skirmishes and entering the Old City on June 7 and full scale assaults on June 8, the same day of the Liberty attack.

(The Liberty had been monitoring Israeli communications and Liberty veterans believe the ship was destroyed to cover up Israel’s decision — not Jordan’s — to attack. Jordan had exchanged fire with the Israelis and the Israelis have since propagandized that they “begged” Jordan not to attack. But that wasn’t the case. Israel had been talking about talking East Jerusalem from since before the war started on June 5.)

The expansionist aspects of Israel’s actions were easy to ignore in the pro-Israel American news media. But how do you cover up the murder of 34 Americans including 33 active duty servicemen?

That was ordered by Admiral McCain, who whitewashed the investigation and prevented the controversy from becoming a major American scandal.

When Cindy McCain, Senator John McCain’s wife, set up her Facebook page, activists with the U.S.S. Liberty Survivors began posting comments about the issue on Cindy McCain’s Facebook Fan Page.

I even posted a comment wondering if the McCain’s felt any remorse over the Israeli killing of the American soldiers and the role that Senator McCain’s father played in covering it all up more than 40 years ago.

Cindy McCain deleted my comments. But the survivors of the U.S.S. Liberty have been relentless and pursuing the controversy to the point where they forced Cindy McCain to make an astonishing comment in which she wrote on her fan page, “I don’t care about this issue.”

The idea that the wife of a man who was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War would not care about the deaths of 34 American soldiers and a civilian at the hands of a foreign country was astounding.

You can go on Facebook and find Cindy McCain’s Fan Page and ask her yourself. She’ll probably quickly delete the posts as fast as you might post them. They’re non-stop. She must be using some of her husband’s Senate staff to help bury this ugly incident from the McCain’s family past.

It is ironic, though, that someone who claims to care about the lives of American soldiers doesn’t really care about all of them. Only the ones that are convenient and that help bolster his political career.

Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan concern Senator McCain and his wife Cindy.

But Americans killed by Israelis? Well, they are in that special Twilight Zone of American politics where reason is trumped by partisan politics and political self-interests.

For more information on the U.S.S. Liberty, visit www.USSLiberty.org. To visit Cindy McCain’s Fan Page, just type her name in the search box and feel free to tell her what you think (or click here).

(Ray Hanania is an award winning columnist and Chicago Radio Talk Show Host Sundays at 8 am on WSBC AM 1240 and WCFJ AM 1470. www.RadioChicagoland.com.)

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Comment by Lisa K on June 11, 2012 at 9:53am

Let's hope and pray she is not under the same sell out spell Charlie and the love police. Peace to you my friend,you are unstopable! Love, Lisa K  Let's not waste up the time we got left on the Paul's!  REMEMBER Bob Chapman...that hurts!

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