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To: Chewbacca

I agree. Read "Treason" by Ann Coulter. If Roosevelt wasn't a supporter of Joe Stalin, I'll eat my hat.

He thought Uncle Joe was the best thing Russia ever had - the man who murdered more people than Hitler than did.

Also, I think Roosevelt deliberately engineered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was responsible for all those dead Americans because he wanted a reason to enter the war after having promised America to keep us out of it.


If I'm not mistaken, Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy during WW1 and helped engineer the successful German attack on the Lusitania, with the connivance of Churchill, in order to accomplish the same thing he did at Pearl Harbor in WW2.

Roosevelt always envied his relative and great American Teddy Roosevelt. He was a poor excuse for Teddy Roosevelt in every way.


12 posted on 06/08/2004 6:33:47 AM PDT by ZULU (They weree)
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To: ZULU
Also, I think Roosevelt deliberately engineered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was responsible for all those dead Americans because he wanted a reason to enter the war after having promised America to keep us out of it.

I don't think that there is enough evidence to suggest that Roosevelt "engineered" or "had advance knowledge of" the attack on Pearl Harbor. Everybody expected the attack to hit the Philippines. Japanese war planning initially focused on taking the Philippines & Guam and then setting a naval ambush for the US Battlefleet. The US War Plan Orange (Japan) focused on 'relieving' Filipino forces by naval resupply. Adm. Yamamoto turned the Japanese strategy on its head by attacking Pearl Harbor first, and in great secrecy.

And don't tell me that we were reading Japanese naval codes, because we weren't at this point. We had broken the Japanese diplomatic key, which is entirely different.

If I'm not mistaken, Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy during WW1 and helped engineer the successful German attack on the Lusitania, with the connivance of Churchill, in order to accomplish the same thing he did at Pearl Harbor in WW2.

Where'd you get this? The U-boat that sank the Lusitania was by itself and had 1 torpedo left. She was getting ready to leave the patrol area to head home and, by chance, caught a glimpse of the Lusitania emerging from a fog bank. The German skipper later said that he didn't think that a single torpedo was enough to sink such a large ship.

The point here is that, while FDR may have allowed munitions to be shipped on the Lusitania, he couldn't have passed the ships position onto the German Navy. If he had, the Germans would have had more than a single U-Boat on station that was down to its last shot.

Now, if you want to say that FDR 'provoked' the Japanese by embargoing Steel, Rubber & Texas Crude, I might go along with that.

47 posted on 06/08/2004 7:05:42 AM PDT by Tallguy (Surviving in PA....thats the "other PA"...Pennsylvania.)
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