Posted on 12/07/2011 6:00:35 PM PST by presidio9
'Was there a man dismay'd Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blundered'
70 years ago over 2,400 Americans were killed and about half as many wounded when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the naval and air forces of Imperial Japan.
The usual scapegoats were identified and ruined, but for decades historians have questioned the official account. Between conventional sources of information and radar tracking, it is argued, the Roosevelt administration knew or ought to have known.
Some analysts have concluded that Franklin Roosevelt wanted a justification, no matter what the price, for getting into the war. Others have been content to charge his administration with incompetence. I simply do not know.
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When brave men die defending their country, it is always a sad and sobering event, but if brave men have been sacrificed needlessly by incompetence of corruption, as Lincoln's troops were in the Civil War he brought on,
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Oh, yeah; I spend hours on end pondering who was to blame for Pearl Harbor. not
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
I’m sick and tied of folks who attack America. Being attacked was NOT our fault!
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with great resolve.”
It’s Bush’s fault.
Americans are still wondering who was to blame
I’m going to go out on limb here and say the Japanese.
Whose fault is it?....Bammy says Bush.
Uhmmmmm.........Japan?
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I am not wondering who is to blame.
The Japanese warmongers had already invaded China and Korea and were attacking islands and countries all over the Pacific.
They were the ones dropping the bombs.
Pretty simple.
Ask any survivor.
There has been no smoking gun nor first person testimony to indicate FDR knew of the attack. I think there was the opinion that Japan was going to attack somewhere..but Hawaii was a stretch. Even if he had known..and put the fleet to sea..the event might have been worse. The Japanese battle fleet might have located the ships and carriers at sea and sunk them where salvage was not possible.
I see our wonderful American educational system has worked it’s magic..............
Nobody even questioned “who to blame” until just a few years ago..
Thank you, political correctness-courtesy of our libtard friends.
Only a jackass would ask such a question. Who is this guy Fleming? Is he an American or an ex-pat living in the UK? Or perhaps he is a European apologist.
Who attacked Pearl Harbor is to blame..."Japanese" is the word even ignorant Brits use.
"It's not over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor??"
UK journalists are projecting their stupidity onto Americans. Nothing new there. But what I wonder is why the Japanese were so stupid that they could convince themselves that getting into a war with the US was a good idea.
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