[cynicom]

Snow...I lived thru that time, and before. FDR did not come up with the internment from thin air. Read the Niihau affair, that was the starting point. After that the FBI estimated that at least 5000 Japanese-Americans would join the Japanese if they were to land in north America. Now is not the time for anyone to second guess FDR and I hated the man. He did what had to be done.

[Snowyman]

Niihau affair, sounds like a plot for good movie. Given the confusion ,and if I may ,"the fog of war",FDR did the only thing he could do. It may not have been right,but it was the safe thing to do.

[patriot31u]

Thats pretty weak reasoning for what happened. A couple of Japanese Americans help a pilot as he takes over one little island. That shows no conclusive evidence that the JAPS would of been able to invade the US because of this incident.