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military, and if it is one thing I learned through all of this, its that when you
get an order, you say yes sir and carry it out with no questions asked.
This was the response given by Capt. Ward Boston, USN (Ret) to this
reporter in a series of recent interviews he gave for American Free Press
Newspaper. For those not familiar with Capt. Ward Boston, he played what
will one day be recognized as one of the most pivotal roles in recent human
history. 40 years ago this upcoming June, he was the senior legal council for
the Naval Board of Inquiry concerning the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS
Liberty by Israeli Air and Naval forces that resulted in 34 Americans killed
and 171 wounded. His job in 1967 was to be part of a hastily-called
investigation into the attack, andas he has recently revealed to the shock of
manyto rule that Israels 90-minute bloodfest waged against Americas
young men was all an accident that occurred during the fog of war, all the
evidence to the contrary be damned. In 2002, Capt. Ward broke his silence
of 3 decades and released an affidavit to the public in which he admitted that
the entire investigation was a sham, and that he was under orders (from
persons of no less authority than President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara) to rule that the bloodiest day in American naval
history since WWII took place as a result of mistaken identity and that
Americas ally, Israelwas innocent of any wrongdoing.
For 35 years Capt. Ward lived with the bitter knowledge that his fellow
servicemen had been deliberately murdered in what was an act of war by a
foreign power and yet because of the orders he received was powerless to
say anything. A conflux of events however led him to make the decision to
damn the torpedoes and to let the chips fall where they may. Im an old
man he told AFP. They cant threaten my job, and if they throw me into
jail, so what? The truth has to be told for the benefit of the survivors and for
the American people whose sons and daughters are dying today.
The first of these events leading him to break his silence was the 2002
release of a book entitled The Liberty Incident written by Judge Ahron Jay
Cristol at a time when America was being drawn into a series of long-term
military engagements with countries that just so happened to be enemies of
Israel. Through his book and subsequent speaking tour, Cristol (a slavish,
shameless, fanatical apologist for the Jewish State who is on more-thanfriendly terms with a number of people in both the military and arms
industry in Israel) did the usual song and dance when it comes to discussing
the terrorist state that attacked America in 1967, which was to argue for
unconditional acquittal, using a collage of sloppy yet deliberate
people made aware of what happened, we would not be in the middle of this
mess in the Middle East now.
2007 By Mark Glenn
CorrespondentAmerican Free Press Newspaper