This is the first that I've heard of the incident as well. Reading through the original link a bit, it sure looks like Israel had every opportunity to identify the ship as American. Given their aerial surveillance of it before the attack, it should have been unmistakable. And unmistakable that the ship was not armed. Surely Israel's intelligence intelligence was not that pathetic to make such a blunder.
The problem that I see is within the definition of “morals”. One would have to define just what their interpretation of it is, before any particular candidate could be assigned as the best fit to that conclusion. It is already obvious to me, that based on comments in this thread, it would be highly likely that several of us would have different interpretations, and therefore personal choices for best candidate.Now if you use the partisan definition of "moral majority", I would think you end up with exactly zero candidates, of the top 3 or 4 from either party. Just ask the RR. They are looking at running an independent.
I am with Newt Gingrinch on this one. He says we are in the first stages or a Phoney War leading up to the real shooting war. Iran will be the trigger IMHO.
It would seem, that with all the Bush/Cheney war rhetoric and drum beating towards Iran, that the US might be the trigger. If history shows us anything, then we should collectively recognize the pattern of case building for an attack. Just look at the lead up to attacking Iraq. The signs are there.