There were a lot of folks out there who believed that the ONLY reason the US got involved in WW2 was because Roosevelt himself planned Pearl Harbor in advance.
These folks ignore the fact that when 300 planes come in and bomb the crap out of one harbor and Japanese troops storm ashore at Guam, Wake Island, and the Phillippines, it doesn't really matter whether or not the US Pacific Fleet was at battle stations or not, there's going to be a war.
"There were a lot of folks out there who believed that the ONLY reason the US got involved in WW2 was because Roosevelt himself planned Pearl Harbor in advance.
These folks ignore the fact that when 300 planes come in and bomb the crap out of one harbor and Japanese troops storm ashore at Guam, Wake Island, and the Phillippines, it doesn't really matter whether or not the US Pacific Fleet was at battle stations or not, there's going to be a war."
Mega dittos, Pearl Harbor was not needed to start a war. One bomb hitting the Phillipines would have done it. By December of 1941, everyone who was paying attention knew war was likely between Japan and the US, the British Empire and the Netherlands. The only question was when. The US was engaged in a desparate race to renforce the Philipines, a race we lost.
I'm surprised they didn't claim he'd planned his cerebral hemorrhage too just so he wouldn't have to be around if the war ended badly for the U.S.