[John H K]

One more time - Pearl Harbor was NOT a surprise attack.

ROFL...knew it was a matter of time till the nitwit brigade started posting that "Roosevelt knew!"

Actually, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are fairly comparable in the level of warning and information known prior to the attack, and in the sense that a Japanese attack was totally expected, just not in the style and location it actually occured, etc.

Just as rabid hatred of Bush is driving the Demonrat frenzy over the supposed 9/11 "warnings", rabid pathological hatred of Roosevelt (partially deserved, of course, as the creator of the American Welfare state) drives the silly conspiracy garbage (that is internally inconsistent with logic, and also inconsistent with the facts) that Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor and "let it happen."

As I always do in these threads...foil hatters..please explain this....what possible gain does Roosevelt get from NOT warning Pearl Harbor, if he knew about the attack? Still waiting for the first remotely adequate or logical answer.

[Blake#1]

I will give you a short answer to your request. Leaders use their people to achieve their political, military, etc. aims. Roosevelt aim was to get the USofA into WWII on England's side. It worked.

[Melinator]

He got immediate and decisive, public and political acceptance of an unwanted war with Japan.

[jamaksin]

Entry into WWII, overcoming the nation's sentiment (as recorded in the Gallup Poll of the time) that the country NOT send men into battle to fight in a foreign war.

[jamaksin]

" ... inconsistent with the facts ..."

Which "facts" are those, please?