Dragaera

Pearl Harbor sucked (and I miss you)

Gomi no Sensei gomi at speakeasy.net
Mon Feb 7 11:02:28 PST 2005

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Ken Koester wrote:

> >Now the interesting thing is, there is evidence that some feel that the US
> >was aware that the Japanese had an attack planned, and allowed it to happen,
> >thus causing a public outcry that would allow a military response towards
> >Japan.

> I don't think there is *any* credible evidence that US planners were
> aware of this.  Folks have tried to show this for decades (mostly
> because they don't like Roosevelt), but I've seen nothing that can even
> be stretched into such a conclusion.

I never really understood those attempts myself. It's not like there isn't
a surfeit of valid reasons to dislike the Roosevelt administration without
going out of one's way to concoct additional ones.

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