"Lighten Up, Francis!"
Posted on 10/01/2012 2:10:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 1, 2012 4:15 P.M.
Cambridge, Mass.--- Celebrated historian Bertram Oxley has uncovered a memorandum from former Japanese Emperor Hirohito to Admiral Yamamoto dated December 6, 1941, showing that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was motivated by an offensive film made by Charlie Chaplin ridiculing Japanese cuisine.
“Contrary to historical accounts over the last seventy years,” Professor Oxley said in an interview today with the BBC, “What appeared to be a meticulously planned surprise attack was actually a spontaneous demonstration by moderate sushi connoisseurs in the Imperial Navy in response to a hateful and offensive movie. Thereafter, extremist elements within the Japanese military co-opted the spontaneous attack, transforming it into the overseas contingency operation sometimes referred to as ‘World War II.’”
The discovery has created a sensation in scholarly circles. “This is a remarkable find,” declared Reginald Smythe, chairman of the Progressive Historians Assocation and former Obama State Department official. “Had President Roosevelt condemned this movie — instead of uttering that infernal ‘Day of Infamy’ provocation — the war could have been avoided and millions of lives would have been saved.”
Reached at his home in Houston, former President George H. W. Bush, an aviator in the Pacific during the war, expressed skepticism. “It’s simply inconceivable that the Japanese First Air Fleet, with six aircraft carriers, could have staged a spur of the moment attack on an island thousands of nautical miles from the Japanese homeland with such stealth and precision.” Most experts dismissed Mr. Bush’s remarks, however, since it’s widely understood that World War II was primarily his son’s fault.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, asked this afternoon about the memo’s discovery stated, “Of course, hindsight’s 20-20. But one can only wonder how much pain and suffering could have been averted had FDR simply apologized to Hirohito at the outset.”
“Fortunately,” Carney continued, waving off questions from White House reporters anxious to return to questions about Mitt Romney’s grooming habits, “We’ve evolved to a more sophisticated strategy of leading from behind, so we’re unlikely to repeat the disastrous mistakes of the past.”
On a real issue of what started WWII, there is a great new book out on Soviet agents manipulation of Roosevelt administration communists and the tactics they used to push the Japanese into war with us at Pearl.
“Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor “ by John Koster is a great read.
See:
http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Snow-Soviet-Triggered-Harbor/dp/1596983221
Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor
Koster documents how Harry Dexter White in FDRs administration worked as an operative for the Soviets to push Japan into war with the US at Pearl Harbor in order to keep the USSR from having to fight a war with Japan on the Soviet east flank while they were fighting Hitler.
White, like Hess, was falsely exonorated and Koster has the goods on him from the declassified sources. Without his intentional provocation, Japan would not have attacked us or felt the need to do so. Addiitionally he shows the warnings, down to exact date and location, that the communist agents in the FDR regime got covered up or ignored.
"Lighten Up, Francis!"
1)Consolidate Muslim countries into a working partnership. A Caliphate.
2)Destroy Euro-American-western influence in the world.
All else are merely minor objectives subordinate to those.
This parody is just begging for a photoshop of FDR bowing deeply to the Emperor of Japan and/or Hirohito.
I’m surprised, given pre-WWII American-Japanese relations, that any Japanese ship was making a port call at Pearl, or that they would have been allowed to do so. It’s not surprising though, that Marines would have acted the way you say. Relations were very bad between the two countries at that time.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, asked this afternoon about the memo’s discovery stated, “Of course, hindsight’s 20-20. But one can only wonder how much pain and suffering could have been averted had FDR simply apologized to Hirohito at the outset.”
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Is that you, Bluto?
*snort*
Yes. WW II is almost universally presented as the “good war.” In questioning that, I’m not faulting our troops or the patriotism of Americans during that time. My uncle was killed in that war. But the sad fact is that although we defeated Hitler and Hirohito, we handed half the world over to Stalin and Mao instead.
I think that Evelyn Waugh has the right angle on it in his Sword of Honour trilogy.
This is all I found in google. :o)
Thanks for the post. Very interesting!
Nearly as good as GeronL...nearly.
Pssssst, yes, it is. For Pete's sake, IT'S A SATIRE OF OBAMA PRETENDING THAT THE LIBYAN ATTACKS WERE CAUSED BY A VIDEO!
Sorry for the shouting, but what does it take to get through to you?
WW2 was the continuation of WW1
You're right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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