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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-08 05:54 PM
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77. Liberty incident and the right..
One of the chief campaigners over the Liberty incident is Phil Tourney. I'd been aware he was right-wing, but was still shocked on checking further. He has spoken at a conference called 'No More Wars for Israel', and has written an article full of accusations about Israel's bad effects on America, including the truly vile statement that the war in Iraq is being 'fought for Israel'. His article/statements are quoted on David Duke's site, Stormfront, WakeUpFromYourSlumber and Crescent and Cross (you can imagine I wasn't too delighted at seeing all *that* in my Google search results!)

I am sure there are people among the Liberty survivors and others who are campaigning for further investigation of the incident for reasons unconnected with RW politics; but it's my experience that those who bring it up in connection with current relations with Israel almost always have very right-wing agendas. (Indeed, people who bring up *any* country's real or imagined misdeeds of 40 years ago as relevant to current relations with that country usually don't have a liberal agenda.)
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