Post-Attack on the USS Liberty–Israel’s Blood Bath
December 15, 2007
On the horizon we could see another helicopter coming at our ship. We thought to ourselves “Oh no, here we go again…more bloodshed from our so-called “friends” in Israel.”
The helicopter hovered above the main deck of the ship and then, to our surprise, dropped a brown paper bag containing an orange and, to our even greater surprise–a business card. On the front of the card read ‘Commander Ernest Castle, Naval Attaché USN’ and on the back of the card, handwritten it asked ‘Have you casualties?’…
As if the dummies couldn’t tell we had casualties after what our ‘allies’ had just done to us after a million armor-piercing rounds, a thousand rockets and 5 torpedoes. Rick Aimetti took the card to the bridge and gave it to the Captain, who was obviously in no mood to deal with this new lunacy. He told them clearly to get the hell away from his ship, finishing his remarks with ‘We want no help from you.’
They left the area and soon were out of sight.
There were many heroes that day who put life and limb on the line in order to save their shipmates in harm’s way. I found out later that the boiler tenders never left their battle stations, even though the boiler was Israel’s main target. Israel did her homework ahead of time and knew that a direct hit on the boiler would have blown the ship into tiny pieces and that would have been that. For Gary Brummett, J.P. Newel, Gene Owens, it turned out that their bravery saved our ship.
Now was the time to care for our wounded, damage control, plugging holes, putting out fires, etc. The mess deck was full of men because we were using it as the main triage center. Every table had a body on it, as well as the deck itself and there was almost no room to move…So many wounded were there, so much blood. I and others were the walking wounded and, judging by what we saw, we were very lucky.
We had two corpsmen onboard and only one doctor, Richard Kiepfer. We kept hoping for help from our government, but nevertheless the seconds dragged on like hours and the hours dragged on like years and soon reality set in and we figured out that we were on our own. The heat of the day gave way to the darkness, which was a welcome change, as the blistering heat cooked our crippled ship, making the smell of blood and death all the more impossible to ignore.
I had no idea how that night would change my life forever, but I was about to find out.
The wounded were screaming in pain, bleeding everywhere. Every sailor who could help was doing all he could to calm our fallen shipmates. They had head wounds and bodies full of shrapnel. Lt. Commander Philip Armstrong the (executive officer of the Liberty) was on one of the tables. I stopped to check on him and he asked me to light him a cigarette…I did and gave it to him. He took long drags off it and soon it was gone and he wanted another so I gave it to him. He smoked it the same as he had the first.
As I was talking to him I thought he would be fine. It seemed to me he would make it, but as it turned out, I was wrong. A few moments later he was dead.
I was shocked and saddened but knew that there would be time to weep later, as others needed help. As the night wore on I was told to go to the Officers’ Mess. There I saw Dr. Kiepfer with his life jacket around his waist. Little did I know that his belly had been cut to pieces and he was using the life jacket to keep pressure on his wounds so as not to bleed to death while he tended to the wounded. He never uttered a word of complaint.
My job was to hold a light for Doc Kiepfer as he did his work. While he was working on Gary Blanchard, Gary asked me to take off his socks because he said his ‘feet were burning’. I did as he asked, took his socks off and it seemed to ease him a bit. Doc started cutting him open from his chest bone on down, working as hard as he could, but it was obvious even to me that it was too late. Gary’s kidneys were all shot up and a few moments later he died. This wonderful young man was gone and it was at this point that I began to hate the murderers who did this to us. What did we do to deserve this? This was not the action of a friend, it was like being sucker-punched the way Judas did to Jesus. They had overflown us for hours earlier in the day and knew who we were. We felt safe, and it was at this moment I figured out that what they were really doing was reconnaissance, finding our weak points so as to better kill us.
Doc put a few stitches in him to keep his insides from falling out all over the place and then it was on to the next person. How Doc was able to do what he did was something not human. It was something from another world, and by that I mean probably from heaven, as no human could have done what he did and I will never forget it as long as I live.
The Captain stayed on the bridge and would not take any medical help until the crew was looked after first.
As the sun began to rise Captain wanted his ship cleaned up, and for that Rick Aimetti and I got the gruesome duty. We got pressure to our firehoses and began the grim task that still brings me nightmares. Body parts were all over, blood and a shoe with a foot still in it. We had no clue who it belonged to. We did as we were ordered and began washing the body parts of our American brothers over the side of the ship to be forever interred in the sea. Their families would never get the chance of seeing them at their wake…No lock of hair, no goodbye kiss, nothing. The tears were rolling down my face as I did this unholy thing of giving to the sea my friends and shipmates and as I did this I begged their forgiveness.
The gun tubes were full of blood that a fire hose was not going to remove, as the blood was baked onto the haze gray paint of our ship. Blood was streaming down the starboard bulkhead wall. We made are way down to the main deck and finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, our gruesome job was over. What I had just done has been a burden on my soul everyday for 40 years, which by my math is somewhere close to 15,000 days.
It is now about 10 am and we see American ships on the horizon. At that moment my body gave out and I laid on the deck…I was exhausted… It was hard to move and I felt relieved that help was there but also anger that help did not come when we needed it the most. Where was my country? Where was my navy? Where was my government? How the hell could they do such a thing to 300 men who swore to give their lives if necessary for the defense of America? My world, my faith in everything that I knew growing up had just been shattered like broken glass, and even though I didn’t know it at the time, this was to be the event that changed me forever, like Saul who, while on his way to Damascus to kill the followers of this new religion known as Christianity, was knocked off his horse, blinded and turned into someone and something new.
Little did I know that my work had only just begun. Now, 40 years later, I am here to tell the story of what happened on June 8th, 1967 to nearly 300 American boys onboard a ship known as the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel for nearly 2 hours. People may dismiss what I say as the rantings of an angry old man, but given what is taking place today regarding the war in the Middle East and everything that may happen, my suggestion is that–while there is time–people turn off the Britney Spears, the Desperate Housewives and the football games and listen, listen carefully to what happened, as it is likely to happen again, because, as the old saying goes, ‘a leopard does not change its spots.’
Phil Tourney
Survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and contributing editor for American Free Press newspaper
tonktime5@yahoo.com
December 15, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Phil, my heart goes out to the “secrecy” you’ve suffered for the last 40 years.
Your story is gut-wrenching. I know of those whom you speak and they are very threatening. Having been visited by a sayan myself pitching life insurance on me for my husband because “you never know what might happen.”
I still spread the word and it helps me when people who were there also do the same.
Thank you.
Shari Peterson
Chicago, Illinois
December 15, 2007 at 11:51 pm
It was truly this brutal act along with many others that awakened me to who really has the power in the world. 99% of all politicians are nothing but traitors,and our founding fathers would have had the lot of them hanged! Our country was taken control of by internationalist over 100 years ago. This goes for Europe also. He who rules the media and controls the money rules/controls all!!!!!
December 15, 2007 at 11:55 pm
While I feel sorry for the sailors, this is par for the course. The Liberty is simply one incident that was found out. There have been hundreds of incidents where sneaky Pete is working both sides. The destruction of the world trade center has many clouds around it. Three thousand people died. Those American sponsored and Israeli sponsored death squads in Iraq. Three thousand Afghans gunned down and buried in a mass grave. Many of these things covered up and forgotten. The Liberty just happened to not sink, and survivors were left to tell the tale, yet, America does nothing about it, nor will America do anything about it. Sorry to have to ruin your day, but this IS America.
December 16, 2007 at 12:17 am
nothing will happen until real americans give the “leo frank” treatment to ever jew on earth.
December 16, 2007 at 12:27 am
Phil,
I was an ET2 stationed on the USS Independence (CVA-62) when you were attacked. I believed the official cover story until I met LT. Lloyd Painter. He was in charge of the Naval Intelligence Group on your ship. I was shocked when he told me that the attack was no mistake and that “OUR GOVERNMENT” covered up the truth. If I can help you in any way don’t hesitate to call me. My e-mail is bovine1946@yahoo.com. Mr. Painter’s wife and my ex-wife worked together at a bank in Lemoyne, PA.
December 16, 2007 at 12:33 am
REVOLUTION is the SOLUTION!!!
December 16, 2007 at 12:59 am
Your fallen shipmates are certain to greet you with warmth in your next phase. It is time for your other Shipmates to join you now and relive this experience for the sake of the entire planet.
The Zionist lion has gain confidence that it holds the power to keep its true nature secret and thus is planning many more Liberty styled attacks. There can be no doubt that the lion will begin to cower in the light of your truth. After forty years your solice is to open the eyes of the planet to the treachery of these souless Zionist criminals.
After all Americans wake up to the fact that all of the Israeli Jews view us all with contempt while they steal our resources, corrupt our politicians, our courts, and our society for their gain. We should also point out their use of chemical, biological, and radiation weapons on their neighbors. Americans need to remember that these rats who pilot the lions rage also have the 4th largest nuclear arsenal and they refuse to allow it or its safeguards to be inspected by anyone.
This is important for all to know because when you make it obvious that they are dangerous villians by exposing the Liberty attack you may start the avalnche of anger that brings them down around the world. When that happens these self-rightgeous and self-appointed master race Zionist will invoke their Sampson option. Which is their last and most devastating act of cowardice for the planets destruction.
These Zionist elitists believe that if the world points a collective finger at them for all of their crimes against all of humanity they have the right, in fact they believe it is their obligation to launch all 200 or so nuclear weapons against targets all over the world. Think about that when you read the whole story of the attack on the Liberty. Remember the treasonous Congressmen and women who sold the US out to the Israeli Zionist all for a few sheckels.
While remembering the dead and wounded aboard the USS Liberty remember that what they did to them they have all ready decided to do to everyone on the planet if we try to stop them from their plans for a slow passed genocide. Yep these Zionist lunatics think if you try to interfere with their slow passed take over of the entire middle east they will simply speed up the process by obliterating every corner of our planet.
This long comment is because the US Navy, US government, US citizens, and every Jew on the planet conspired to cover up the consiracy to sink the Liberty so that the Jews of Israel could provoke the US involvement in the middle east war of 1967. If you dig deeper you find the President Johnson was Americas top conspirator in this affair. So listen up, wake up and get eveyone you know to do the same. Israel is hell bent on destroying the planet if they cannot own it and completely control it. Sadly too, the Liberty crew is sure to get more company in death until the masses wake up and stop these Zionist from their destructive path.
December 16, 2007 at 1:48 am
If you believe, as I do, that Lyndon Johnson was utterly evil and corrupt then it is easy to understand that he felt no obligation to help the men of the USS Liberty. I blame him for sending the ship to the war zone without protection and for not allowing the US Navy to rescue the ship once it was attacked. It is not difficult to believe he sent the ship there for the purpose of a false-flag attack by Israel to be blamed on Egypt. Of course, Israel has its own politicians like Lyndon Johnson, which will not be our problem if we vote for Ron Paul. RON PAUL 2008
December 16, 2007 at 2:00 am
Let us also remember that this deplorable and traitorous act by an ally was the work of the Zionist government of Israel… not Jews in general, many of whom I believe would be as appalled at what was done in their name as many of us are apalled at what is daily done in our name with our tax dollars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and many other places around the world. As I am not the Bush Administration, they are not Zionist Israel.
This story is as horrific as any I’ve heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and should live as long if not longer in infamy as that fateful day. This should have been a call to war on Israel. Why it was not can only be explained by having traitors in our own government and military, i.e. Commander Ernest Castle, Naval Attaché USN. Damn them all to hell.
December 16, 2007 at 3:01 am
After reading this article i wept for all that died that day.Now im trembling with anger,history is repeating itself as our SON BROTHER HUSBAND DAUGHTER FATHER are being used as pawn by our so call FRIENDS the ISRAELIS to fight a war that is not ours.
We need to stop our funding of the terror state of ISRAEL.
When the British realize their mistake of helping the ZIONIST and try to stop them the zionist did the same thing to the British by blowing up a hotel, and killed 91 British soldiers, The King David Massacre July 22, 1946
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
- Cicero, 42 B.C.
My heart goes out to you Phil
PEACE
December 16, 2007 at 3:01 am
As someone else stated above - reading the history of this event is one of the main things that woke me up to the hidden truth of this world. I thank you for your sacrifice.
Dugg in SC
December 16, 2007 at 3:03 am
This is in response to poster Phillip who left the comment in effect that “all Jews must recieve the Leo Frank treatment.” To that I would say to please refrain from making such baseless and blanket statements that allows the enemy “Zionists” to label all truth speakers as Naziswhowanttokillsixmillionjews. The fact is that while undoubtedly a percentage of Jews do support the war mongering, gentile hating sentiments of the rabid Israeli government, the Chabad Lubavitch and the extremist Israeli settlers who want to ethnically cleanse Palestine, many Jews don’t. A majority of Israeli’s do not even support their own Zionist government. The Jewish Zionist and Communist enemies of the West must be fought with truth not calls for genoicide. It is not the presence of Jews in the world that threatens, it is the power that certain elements of Jewish interest have been allowed to wield over people of the world that is the threat.
December 16, 2007 at 3:15 am
Israel is the United States Judas, it has betrayed the US on many occasions, and will continue to do so as long as it serves their evil purpose and interests.
The Anti-Christ is, and has been for a long time, albeit unwittingly, showing itself with complete disdain & arrogance, still believing that the so-called Holocaust, and cries of anti-semetism (which is in itself a contradiction in terms) affords them leave to do as they please with impunity.
The unforunate thing is the zionists who were behind the “holocaust” have avid students, who are now behind formenting an even more comprehensive holocaust against the non zionist jewish people.
The world awakens to their treachery with each passing day,
The armies of the anti-christ will be defeated, following which peace will reign for 1000yrs, and the meek shall inherit the earth
Know Thine Enemy
December 16, 2007 at 3:21 am
The hard road in this will be getting Joe and Jane Citizen to accept the reality that our ‘leaders’ are and have been willing to stab their country in the back. People don’t want to believe it because it is not comfortable and presents their mind with an unsavory conflict of ideals. As a case in point, here is an excerpt from a Pearl Harbor thread where all were pitching in with their solemn respects. I pointed to some info that shows with high probability the complicity of FDR and several others in allowing the attack to proceed unfettered.
Quote:
I’ve read it, and seen the rumors before, that info is 60 years old, it’s been floating around since Dec, 8th, 1941.
Even supposing that it was true, what’s the purpose or use of bringing up 66 year old “maybes”??
LBJ, faked the Gulf of Tonkin, so what?
Maybe the Russians had Patton killed, maybe the Russians or Castro had Kennedy killed, maybe the moon landing was staged, it’s NOT important.
:end quote
Here is a link if anyone wishes to see the content.
link: http://pub36.bravenet.com/forum/3079965801/show/785404
This attitude is, I feel, the biggest obstruction to a resolution of the Liberty attack, as well as numerous other events. People in this country readily believe what they are told to be the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, but can’t accept the same type behaviour could be present in *our* so-called leaders or (choke) allies. I wonder if any of those respectful people would like to tell Phil or the other survivors “it doesn’t matter”?
December 16, 2007 at 4:04 am
Back in 1967 I believed the story that the attack on the USS Liberty was an accident. What I didn’t know then was that the attack was an attempt to trigger a US attack on Egypt! I recently read that a US bomber was actually on its way to drop an atomic bomb on Cairo and that the plot was partially foiled by the Libertys’ sur-vival and a Russian threat to nuke Tel Aviv in response. Now we are facing a repeat of this with Iran.
December 16, 2007 at 4:17 am
Had JFK lived Lyndon Johnson’s future would have been very bleak. Kennedy was planning to drop him as his running mate. LBJ’s associate, Billy Sol Estes, was ready to testify to LBJ’s complicity in a minimum of 3 political murders. JFK was planning on winding down the Vietnam war. Then he got assassinated and LBJ’s fortunes reversed. The gunmen were French Corsicans hired by the Santos Traficante. He was a gangster working for Israel firster Meyer Lansky. Through Lansky Israel had the evidence to prove that LBJ had JFK killed. Brown and Root was a construction company that made its fortune building airports and navel ports for the military during WWII. They had been LBJ’s financial backers throughout his career and he repaid them with government contacts during his tenure in the Senate during WWII and Korea. With LBJ ratcheting up the Vietnam was Brown and Root hit the motherload. The Vietnam war became very unpopular during LBJ’s presidency. This was primarily due to campus radical leading war protests. Many of these protests were staged by Jewish activists. When Israel attacked the Liberty they had already made a deal with LBJ. LBJ needed them to keep quiet about his involvement in JFK’s assassination and LBJ needed a popular war to keep him in office and to reward his financial backers at Brown and Root. Israel would sink the Liberty and blame it on Egypt. LBJ would get Congress to declare war on Egypt, Jordan, etc. and redeploy the troops from Vietnam to the Middle East. The campus radicals would stop protesting the Vietnam war and start promoting the middle east war and the need to defend Israel. Israel could guarantee this because the campus radicals were mostly Jews working for Israel. Israel would get the US to destroy its enemies and LBJ would transform an unpopular war into a popular one.
Fast forward to today. GWB and Cheney were obviously complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Whoever was responsible for the attacks had to have known the details of the several war games scheduled for that day. Just prior to 9/11 the comptroller for the Pentagon was Dov Zakheim, a dual citizenship US/Israeli Rabbi. Because he approved the budgets he would have had detailed knowledge of the war games scheduled for that day. His was just one of dozens of top level jobs in the Pentagon that were filled by Israeli citizens. Further the lease on the World Trade Center had just been awarded to two Jews with US/Israel citizenship. That 9/11 was an updated USS Liberty is obvious from the subsequent events. Even Brown and Root which has become KBR, a Haliburton subsidiary, is still a major war profiteer.
We now have a President who is involved in a capital crime. His involvement can be demonstrated by the Israeli perpetrators of the crime (yes, they would be exposed but he can be apprehended). He has an unpopular war but Israel can turn it into a very popular war. We have a large armada in the Persian Gulf and Israel has nuclear weapons and the means to deploy them against this armada. They could use nuclear weapons to sink the entire fleet and blame it on Iran. With the Jewish controlled press to conceal the facts and GWB to keep Congress in line we would see a replay of 1967 with a very different outcome.
December 16, 2007 at 4:24 am
Jews don’t necessarily believe the same ideology, yet a person only needs to do an online search for the “truth about the Babylonian Talmud” to become enlightened about the highly racist (and anti-Christian) Jewish biblical beliefs. Why don’t Jews denounce this inherent racist part of their culture? Perhaps for the same reason that they don’t denounce the USS Liberty attack, the Armenian and Bolshevik genocides, and the Zioncons push for the Iraq, and now desired Iran War. Until they acknowledge their faith-based racism, there is little hope the world will be saved from their duplicity. Hate legislation doesn’t apply to them. By “deception”, they repeat the history that causes them to be “chosen” to get exiled from every host country they have inhabited. So, while not all Jews are Zionist extremists, they all seem to yell anti-semitism in unison, don’t they? It is hardly convincing that they don’t believe the same thing when they appear to condone their faith-based history of racism and hatred which they presently reenact against the Palestinians. Shame on the duped and ignorant Evangelicals. Hats off to those who recently published the National Intelligence Estimate that may save us from WWIII by the “crazies”….
December 16, 2007 at 4:29 am
I am a survivor and also take offense to labeling all
Jews as supporters of the Zionist movement. We know
that is not true, and have known for years. The survivors are only looking for the justice that was due
them over forty years ago, and are not headhunting for
anyone. I would be the first to support people like
El Ravager knowing that he and I probably are of the same mind in many areas. I was the Petty Officer in
Charge of body recovery and identification and I am
here to say that “Blood Bath” just doesn’t adequately
describe what I saw in the aftermath.
December 16, 2007 at 4:30 am
We were decieved,now we shall never forget.Remember the Liberty,or we shall have nothing but death…More people are waking up everday,will it be soon enough?I belive so.Evil must be punished.
December 16, 2007 at 4:33 am
The attack on the USS Liberty was a premeditated act, that was designed to trigger a nuclear attack upon Cairo, Egypt.
This would then lead to a confrontation with Russia, and an all out nuclear war would begin, that would lead to the extermination of the mass of the human race.
That was the plan in 1967, and unfortunately, is still the plan today.
Early on in the nuclear age-1946- it was understood that to go ahead with a full scale nuclear build up, it would in one way or the other, lead to the mass extermination of the human race.
The “Deciders” of the time(1946), made the well thought out decision to do just that: Exterminate the body of humanity in an all out nuclear holocaust.
The nuclear “Trigger” has been pulled on us several times over the decades; each time, in some strange way, a ‘Miracle’ intervenes, and spares us from immolation.
This is what the Extraterrestrial intervention is all about.