You could be right. I know the events leading up to the Spanish American War and the fakery related to Tonken Bay has demonstrated we seem to have a propensity to “make up” things to get us involved militarily. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if the same circumstances/thinking couldn’t exist in 1941. The Lusitania could have been a sucker punch too.
A. Yes, Wilson and his administration knew she was carrying contraband - making her a legitimate target in a declared war zone.
B. After a British underseas film crew released photographs of her cargo - yup, tons of munitions, the US government "found" the original manifest "behind an old file cabinet." - in 1975.
C. The British Admiralty still to this day has not released all of their SS LUSITANIA material.
D. Where were FDR and Churchill during the SS LUSITANIA sinking?
Finally, just a note ... research the "Zimmerman Telegraph" as the trigger for the US entry into WW I.