Guess who may be doing the will of Allah? The "infidel" President Bush

ChronWatch.com ^ | February 16, 2005 | Wayne Lusvardi

[WayneLusvardi]

"The pictures in the media of an overwhelming number of Iraqis going to the polls to vote on January 30 have seemingly quelled the doubt and outright anger among many in the U.S. that the war in Iraq was illegitimate based on the supposedly hollow claims of WMD’s, the dubious need to depose the dictator Saddam Hussein in a world full of many equally bad dictators, and the historical unlikelihood of the prospects for democracy in the Middle East. Abounding conspiracy theories about an oil-grab, Halliburton political pork, and imperialism as the real reasons behind the war all of a sudden seem paranoid compared to what many called the incoherent reasons for launching the war in the first place. Suddenly out of nowhere the war has subtly changed from a seemingly unjust war to a just war, however tenuous it may be."

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[Chef Dajuan]

They sent Nomura and Kurusu to stall in "negotiations". When they decided to break off negotiations on Dec 6th, they sent what's known as the "Fourteen-Part message", which listed all the fraudulent grievances they had with us and was tantamount to an ultimatum.

Of course we had long cracked the Japanese codes and read it before they did at the Japanese embassy in Washington. This ultimatum was to be delivered to the Sec'y of State at precisely 1pm EST, 12/7/41. (7am Hawaii time...the first bombs fell at 7:22am.) But the Japs couldn't find a typist on a Sunday morning and did it themselves, not arriving at Hull's office until close to 2pm.

When Cordell Hull read the ultimatum he delivered the second-best line of the whole Pearl Harbor attack.

"In all my fifty years of public service I have never seen a document more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions. Falsehoods and distortions on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them."

Here's a great page for some background on their deception leading up to Pearl Harbor. You should also read Ladislas Farago's "The Broken Seal".

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/70-7_04.htm