[Blake#1]

Possible! Did you read DAY OF DECEIT? Stinnett details FDR's plan to bring the American public opinion around to war. There are those that say FDR and Churchill riged the sinking of the Luisitania to bring American public opinion around to war in 1916. Much was to be gained by England and the USofA winning rather than losing wars.

[jamaksin]

Yes, I have read "Day of Deceit" - both versions. The paperback's Afterword section has as its last sentence - 'We knew.'"

On the SS Lusitania - some funny things there.

A. Sinking did not get the US into WWI - the Zimmermann telegram and un-restricted submarine warfare did. But recall, Wilson went to the Congress and asked for a declaration of war.

B. For decades the US government denied she was carrying war materiels. Only after a British film crew released photographs from the wreck showing tons of canon shells, ... etc. did the Archive produce the SS Lusitania's original manifest. Yup, war materiel as the German government said - bye the bye, making her a legitimate target of war.

C. The US government knowingly placed innocents in "harm's way" and,

D. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time - and none of his paper on the Lusitania incident have ever been released.

Go figure.

Also, please see Wilford's "Pearl Harbor Redefined" - just out in January 2002.

[Inyokern]

Did you read DAY OF DECEIT?

Perhaps the most over-hyped overblown book in history. Books like that could only come out after Gordon Prange (the author of "Tora Tora Tora") had died. No one dared publish that nonsense while Prange was alive because he would shoot these ridiculous theories.

Of course, Roosevelt, Stimson and the rest of the people accused of being in the supposed conspiracy have been dead for a long time. But, it seems that the death of Prange in 1980 was really what opened the flood gates on these conspiracy books.