[Video] 1945 Life Magazine: Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) Knew Japan Would Attack Pearl Harbor
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How many thousand threads are you going to start about this, Frank? Can't you just bookmark the original one, and bump it when you get a wild hair?
Or is there discussion in all of those threads that you're hoping won't happen again? Discussion such as, why do people say FDR knew the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor when there's no evidence that FDR or anyone who had direct access to him actually had sense enough not to underestimate them and to give them credit for pulling it off? After all, Hawaii is a long way from Japan. After all, we and Japan had a long history of underestimating each other (Japan didn't think Teddy Roosevelt's 'Great White Fleet could circumnavigate the world, for example).
Yes, underestimating our Pacific rivals was criminally stupid. But to say, 'They intentionally depleted Hawaii's defenses by ferrying aircraft to Midway' when there's plenty of good evidence that they didn't know where the attack would come, and thought it could well be Midway that would be attacked, is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty.
And there's nothing said in that Life Magazine article or in that whole video to dispute this fact. What's more, I know you know all this Frank, because you've read all this before. Like, in the other dozen threads you've started on this topic.
Or is there discussion in all of those threads that you're hoping won't happen again? Discussion such as, why do people say FDR knew the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor when there's no evidence that FDR or anyone who had direct access to him actually had sense enough not to underestimate them and to give them credit for pulling it off? After all, Hawaii is a long way from Japan. After all, we and Japan had a long history of underestimating each other (Japan didn't think Teddy Roosevelt's 'Great White Fleet could circumnavigate the world, for example).
Yes, underestimating our Pacific rivals was criminally stupid. But to say, 'They intentionally depleted Hawaii's defenses by ferrying aircraft to Midway' when there's plenty of good evidence that they didn't know where the attack would come, and thought it could well be Midway that would be attacked, is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty.
And there's nothing said in that Life Magazine article or in that whole video to dispute this fact. What's more, I know you know all this Frank, because you've read all this before. Like, in the other dozen threads you've started on this topic.
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Yes, it's conceivable that this was deliberate. But I doubt it.
Yes, it's criminal that Adm. Husband Kimmel was about the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. Navy who had sense enough to know and insist that Japan could do what they did, yet died still a scapegoat. Yes it's criminal that Washington decided he didn't 'need to know' that there was definitely an attack coming (somewhere) from Japan. Yes, this incident, which in any case was not a false flag attack, did show the more unscrupulous politicians (LBJ comes to mind) the value of false flag attacks.
But that doesn't mean FDR purposely sacrificed eight extremely big, expensive and useful ships and thousands of young men. It just doesn't mean that.
And what difference does it make? Is the notion that people in Washington let this happen through arrogance, racism and general neglect any less monstrous? Really?
Yes, it's criminal that Adm. Husband Kimmel was about the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. Navy who had sense enough to know and insist that Japan could do what they did, yet died still a scapegoat. Yes it's criminal that Washington decided he didn't 'need to know' that there was definitely an attack coming (somewhere) from Japan. Yes, this incident, which in any case was not a false flag attack, did show the more unscrupulous politicians (LBJ comes to mind) the value of false flag attacks.
But that doesn't mean FDR purposely sacrificed eight extremely big, expensive and useful ships and thousands of young men. It just doesn't mean that.
And what difference does it make? Is the notion that people in Washington let this happen through arrogance, racism and general neglect any less monstrous? Really?
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Antiwar Radio: Interview w/ Robert Stinnett author of Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wjAqH9SyEg
Robert Stinnett, World War II Pacific US Navy veteran and author of Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses the treason of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in approving a policy to provoke Japan into striking first and deliberately allowing their navy to strike ours at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Robert B. Stinnett is a Media Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of George Bush: The War Years and Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor.
Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
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Amazon.com Review
From Publishers Weekly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wjAqH9SyEg
Robert Stinnett, World War II Pacific US Navy veteran and author of Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses the treason of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in approving a policy to provoke Japan into striking first and deliberately allowing their navy to strike ours at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Robert B. Stinnett is a Media Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of George Bush: The War Years and Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor.
Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
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Amazon.com Review
It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America.
Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee
Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee
From Publishers Weekly
Historians have long debated whether President Roosevelt had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Using documents pried loose through the Freedom of Information Act during 17 years of research, Stinnett provides overwhelming evidence that FDR and his top advisers knew that Japanese warships were heading toward Hawaii. The heart of his argument is even more inflammatory: Stinnett argues that FDR, who desired to sway public opinion in support of U.S. entry into WWII, instigated a policy intended to provoke a Japanese attack. The plan was outlined in a U.S. Naval Intelligence secret strategy memo of October 1940; Roosevelt immediately began implementing its eight steps (which included deploying U.S. warships in Japanese territorial waters and imposing a total embargo intended to strangle Japan's economy), all of which, according to Stinnett, climaxed in the Japanese attack. Stinnett, a decorated naval veteran of WWII who served under then Lt. George Bush, substantiates his charges with a wealth of persuasive documents, including many government and military memos and transcripts. Demolishing the myth that the Japanese fleet maintained strict radio silence, he shows that several Japanese naval broadcasts, intercepted by American cryptographers in the 10 days before December 7, confirmed that Japan intended to start the war at Pearl Harbor. Stinnett convincingly demonstrates that the U.S. top brass in Hawaii--Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Husband Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter Short--were kept out of the intelligence loop on orders from Washington and were then scapegoated for allegedly failing to anticipate the Japanese attack (in May 1999, the U.S. Senate cleared their names). Kimmel moved his fleet into the North Pacific, actively searching for the suspected Japanese staging area, but naval headquarters ordered him to turn back. Stinnett's meticulously researched book raises deeply troubling ethical issues. While he believes the deceit built into FDR's strategy was heinous, he nevertheless writes: "I sympathize with the agonizing dilemma faced by President Roosevelt. He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom." This, however, is an expression of understanding, not of absolution. If Stinnett is right, FDR has a lot to answer for--namely, the lives of those Americans who perished at Pearl Harbor. Stinnett establishes almost beyond question that the U.S. Navy could have at least anticipated the attack. The evidence that FDR himself deliberately provoked the attack is circumstantial, but convincing enough to make Stinnett's bombshell of a book the subject of impassioned debate in the months to come. (Dec.)
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