[Bogeygolfer]

I wasn't taking his statement 'lined up' literally nor do I think that was how it was intended. Not even the kookiest of kooks think FDR drew up the line of ships. What folks do think is that he brought all the ships of the line into the harbor so as to be a more attractive target and I understood that particular point. That is the nature of the argument. FDR stands accused not just of allowing Pearl to happen but of having our ships in the harbor. The argument is how unusual it was that the aircraft carriers were out to sea without their usual escort. We couldn't afford to lose our carriers but the line ships.....

[You Dirty Rats]

What folks do think is that he brought all the ships of the line into the harbor so as to be a more attractive target and I understood that particular point. That is the nature of the argument. FDR stands accused not just of allowing Pearl to happen but of having our ships in the harbor.

Admiral Kimmel flatly denied that he had orders to keep his ships in port during his testimony to the Congressional Committee in 1946.

The argument is how unusual it was that the aircraft carriers were out to sea without their usual escort. We couldn't afford to lose our carriers but the line ships.....

So FDR deliberately decided that the BBs were expendable but not the CVs? He ordered Kimmel which ships to send out and which to keep in port because FDR knew the Japanese were watching Pearl and would have not attacked if the BBs were not in port? Why didn't Kimmel bring any of this up when he was before the Committee? Kimmel despised FDR and was furious that the Pearl disaster forced him out of the war. Furthermore, in 1941 the primacy of the CV over the BB had not yet been established. At that time, for example, no BB or BC had EVER been sunk at sea by ANY air attack, much less carrier-based air only.

Your position not only makes no sense, but you have ZERO evidence to support it. It's just another lunatic conspiracy theory.