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To: Mr. Silverback

You misunderstand me; it is not my position that Roosevelt knew the Japanese had targeted Pearl Harbor, only that he knew a Japanese military response against the U.S. was approaching certainty.

I would argue that he discounted the likelihood of an attack on Pearl Harbor, since it was believed to be too shallow for Japanese torpedo attack. Almost all the planning focused on the premise that the initial Japanese attack would fall on the Philippines, which is why MacArthur was ordered to prepare for such an attack.


50 posted on 09/11/2008 12:31:30 PM PDT by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Philo-Junius
which is why MacArthur was ordered to prepare for such an attack.

And yet he did not do so. How does that fit with the conspiracy theory?

I'll rephrase my earlier question: Go ahead and post here any actual evidence you have that FDR knew in advance that we would be attacked by the Japanese.

52 posted on 09/11/2008 12:40:04 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Bac Mac.******)
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