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The Attack on Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise

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Researchers about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor know that President Franklin Roosevelt had provoked this Japanese attack to justify America’s entry into World War II. Most Americans were against joining the war, but the attack on Pearl Harbor provided the excuse needed to declare war. The best book on this topic is “Day of Deceit” by former World War II Navy officer Robert Stinnett. The topics he covers are controversial because most people refuse to accept that Roosevelt and top military leaders in Washington DC failed to inform the commanders in Hawaii that a Japanese fleet was coming to attack.

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Dale
Dale
December 7, 2020

About time. Truth has been buried far too long.

snedly arkus
snedly arkus
Reply to  Dale
December 7, 2020

There have been many books and articles written over the years that Roosevelt knew they were going to attack Pearl Harbor so this is nothing new. Truth is and is well known the Americans figured that if they kept pushing the Japanese with embargoes they would attack us. Problem is they figured it would be the US bases in the Phillippines and never gave a thought it could be Pearl Harbor. There are those that claim the US tracked the Japanese fleet all the way from Japan to Hawaii. Not True. The Japanese set up eleborate ruses to fool the… Read more »

RalphSchmalph
RalphSchmalph
Reply to  snedly arkus
December 7, 2020

You are correct….and the story regarding FDR’s alleged deceit is a very old one that goes back to the hearings where Adm. Husband Kimmel, the Pacific Fleet Commander was scapegoated for the losses suffered on December 7th.
Good Wiki article to start the research:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_E._Kimmel#Posthumous_reputation_and_debate

Step Back Six
Step Back Six
Reply to  RalphSchmalph
December 7, 2020

Using wikipedia as a source is like using The Inquirer as your source.

RU Kidding
RU Kidding
Reply to  Step Back Six
December 7, 2020

Or wearing a mask while driving alone in your car…

Brett Short
Reply to  Step Back Six
December 7, 2020

Wikipedia is run by communist that do not believe in “free speech”. These bastards censor anything THEY don’t like. Wikipedia is a phony source for any “facts”.

stylin19
stylin19
Reply to  Step Back Six
December 7, 2020

Inquirer or Enquirer ? Don’t dismiss the whole thing. I’ve found WIKI, in some cases, to be a good to great starting point for research. In some cases, WIKI’s source document is the document that leads me to the resource I need.

RalphSchmalph
RalphSchmalph
Reply to  Step Back Six
December 7, 2020

Nonsense. It’s always a good place to start for history, not for anything current or political.

Bookdoc
Bookdoc
Reply to  RalphSchmalph
December 7, 2020

I have read that FDR had wanted a partial embargo but Hopkins changed it to a full embargo. It has been said that he had communist leanings and the USSR wanted the US in a war with Japan so they could send the troops protecting the Russian/Japan border west. Check out Venona…
Side note-the japs actually did us a favor by sinking the battleships and letting our carrier admirals move to the fore. The battleship/carrier disagreement carried on in Japan until late in the war.

GreenLanternMD
GreenLanternMD
Reply to  snedly arkus
December 7, 2020

It seems odd that they knew but didn’t warn the Navy, which could have then been ready for the attack. It seems doubtful a few hours notice would have caused the Japanese to call it off. We still would have entered the war, but in a better position.

Jeff Limon
Jeff Limon
Reply to  snedly arkus
December 7, 2020

He’s right – The notion that carrier-based aircraft would travel thousands of miles, in radio silence, avoiding all shipping lanes, to attack from 270 miles north of Hawaii, was preposterous. Even if Roosevelt had known, he would have been laughed-at, big time.

Henry
Henry
Reply to  Dale
December 7, 2020

So America should not have stopped the Nazis?

Titaniumman
Titaniumman
Reply to  Henry
December 7, 2020

WE never really stopped them, the Nazi’smay have lost the war but they were never really defeated., many ended up in sensitive positions within our government after the war.
Does anyone really think that many of the top Nazi’s were able to escape to South America, but Hitler didn’t ???
If so i have a trio of flying tap dancing monkeys that fly around and fart glitter for sale at a discounted price

Eric Schrader
Eric Schrader
Reply to  Titaniumman
December 7, 2020

If Hitler would have listened to his Generals, the war could have been won by the Germans. 1) should have never declared war on Russia, opening up two fronts 2) he should have stopped wasting resources on stupid projects like his railroad of the future and the big gun the size of a building among others. 3) Rommell was his best general. If he ran the war machine, it would have taken many atom bombs to end it in Europe. 4) The Germans spent an enormous about of effort building fortresses in Norway that could have been deployed elsewhere and… Read more »

Greg
Greg
Reply to  Eric Schrader
December 7, 2020

Thank HEAVEN Hitler was Hitler. If Goebbels and a few others were in charge German would be the world’s language,

RalphSchmalph
RalphSchmalph
Reply to  Titaniumman
December 7, 2020

Communism wasn’t defeated when the Soviet Union collapsed either.

Dave Huff
Dave Huff
December 7, 2020

Bottom line, elected officials are scum…..

Henry
Henry
Reply to  Dave Huff
December 7, 2020

So we should have let the Nazis have Europe?

Greg
Greg
Reply to  Henry
December 7, 2020

America would have stopped Germany the day England was invaded.

Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Reply to  Greg
December 7, 2020

I don’t think so,for that short period of time ,Nazis Germany was the most powerful nation on earth,a thing not seen since the legions of imperial Rome at its height,they would of torn the Americans apart.Hitler did indeed have an army that could of stormed the gates of heaven..

Platon
Platon
Reply to  Dave Huff
December 8, 2020

Democracy is clearly a form of negative selection leading to catastrophic collapse as a brief glance at the “West” will quickly confirm.

wolfman
wolfman
December 7, 2020

Totally agree. I’ve read the book.

Henry
Henry
December 7, 2020

I suppose the “reporter” raising this narrative would have preferred the remaining Jews to have burned in the ovens?

Jekyllilsand
Jekyllilsand
Reply to  Henry
December 7, 2020

Think about this… knew what was happening in those camps well before the US entered into the war

Sorry the DNC’s guy like all their other people will use anyone to advance their own cause

Jekyllilsand
Jekyllilsand
Reply to  Jekyllilsand
December 7, 2020

That is FDR knew what was happening to the Jews well before entering into the war

Next travesty committed by FDR: cutting the fuel supply to Patton in order ti stop his advancement in ending the war

Titaniumman
Titaniumman
December 7, 2020

Roosevelt was a Democrat and as we all know when it comes to the Democrats they will sacrifice as many people as possible to reach their goals

Eric Schrader
Eric Schrader
December 7, 2020

Worst kept secret in Washington. They had already broken the Japanese code.

Brightlight
Brightlight
December 7, 2020

People need to realize Germany was provoked as well into invading Poland. WW2 history is not what Hollywood, the MSM, and public education have portrayed it. Watch, “Europa: The Last Batttle” and see Pat Buchanan’s, “The Unnecessary War”.

Sqiggy
Sqiggy
December 7, 2020

Certainly the 9/11 of its day.

coonbalzz
coonbalzz
December 7, 2020

its all true and worse. every single logistical point of attack, refueling, extraction etc. fdr hounded japs with his delano family, rockefellers, duponts, bushes, warburgs, rotschilds, windsors, fed families. They must be extermunated by sheople or they will slaughter sheople.

coonbalzz
coonbalzz
Reply to  coonbalzz
December 7, 2020

they created nazis and shitler to pursue malthusan sabbateanism, experimenting first on jews. They created lenin, trotsky, stalin and the others. now its covid and if the stupid masses accept it they will wind up in ovens.

Deguello
Deguello
December 7, 2020

Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, the leading early promoter of American air power, predicted to a tee the attack on Pear Harbor and in the Philippines in 1924, seventeen years before it occurred. He was court marshaled for that and other brash talk directed at his superiors, then cashiered out of the service for his trouble.

sagacious
sagacious
December 7, 2020

No different than the Gulf of Tonkin incident. I hope he slept well the night that thousands of our navy cadets were slaughtered like sitting ducks.Roosevelt was no saint. He tried to pack the Supreme Court, he refused to help the Jews of Europe even though he had first hand knowledge of the Holocaust, his extreme liberal policies extended the Great Depression…

Deguello
Deguello
Reply to  sagacious
December 8, 2020

If he baited, then watched, the Japs attack Pearl Harbor so that it drew us into WWII early enough to save Britain, then it was the most notably good move FDR ever made…maybe the only good one.

Monty Anaconda
Monty Anaconda
December 7, 2020

The radio triangulation theory falls apart when one considers that the Imperial Fleet was under strict radio silence except for receipt from IJHQ of the “Climb Mount Niitaka” message (code for mission go-ahead) and receipt of the first attack wave’s message, “Tora, Tora, Tora” (code for the achievement of surprise). You cannot triangulate what ain’t transmitting. As an aside, the code wasn’t broken until May 1942. Even then we couldn’t be sure until AF used in the code was positively identified as Midway later that month. Some wacked out imaginations on here. Let me join! I hear we created the… Read more »

Last edited 3 years ago by Monty Anaconda
danE
danE
December 7, 2020

There has been no one to question the inbound bomber squadron’s appearance on the new radar screen. The America bomber squadron, from the West Coast (I think Washington state) was due in and took the focus off the japs main body attack squadron. I am sure this was coordinated with the time of the attack, to divert the Army’s attention off the japs massive attack, because the officer in charge told the radar attendees that “it’s a bomber squadron due in from the west coast.” I would question, WHO GAVE THE ORDER TO SEND IN THOSE PLANES AND WHERE DID… Read more »

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Jonah Kyle
Jonah Kyle
December 7, 2020

Remember, the Deep State goes all the way back to Reconstruction (and to be blunt, the institution of slavery) in the United States. The Democrat Party, since the Civil War, has been the instrument of this fatal human societal disease.

letmepicyou
letmepicyou
December 7, 2020

You all think you know something?
Nobody here knows anything.
Here’s something for you all to learn about.

Eisenhower’s Holocaust.

All of history has you know it is wrong.
The same group of IMPOSTERS who claim to be “Jews” and “God’s chosen people” run it all.

Except Modern Jewry is Esau / Edom. Descendants of CAIN, the ORIGINAL LIAR.
Those who fled into the Caucus mountains and west to become the CAUCASIANS are the TRUE Israelites. WE are of Abraham, and of Jacob. They are of their father THE DEVIL.

Mr. Evans
Mr. Evans
December 7, 2020

The NAZIS Are Here And In Charge Of The FMRU$, The YUK, And Australia . . . The Fourth Reich Is Very Much Alive And More Evil Then Before . . . ;-(

Mr. Evans
Mr. Evans
December 7, 2020

The NAZIS On Trial At The Nuremberg Trials In 1946 Said That They Were ” Just Following Their Orders ” . . . . We Need A New 2020-2021 Nuremberg Style Trials (German: Nürnberger Prozesse) Or Tribunals For All Of These Evil Soulless Greedy Empathy-Less Psychopathic Non-Human Monsters Like $hill Gates Of Hell And Fascist Doctor Death Anthony Fraudci, And All Of The Evil $hits In Places Of Power And In Governments Around The Realm Who Are Enforcing These Illegal-Criminal COVID-OP$1984 $camdemic Lockdowns, And The Illegal-Criminal Unhealthy Forced Face Diaper Nappy Muzzle Wearing Which Are Making Everyone Sick And Ill… Read more »

Jayeles
Jayeles
Reply to  Mr. Evans
December 7, 2020

…and don’t let them stick that Q-tip up your nose, either. Already have? Oops.

Brett Short
December 7, 2020

The Japs purpose for attacking Pearl was to keep the American force away from their oil supply lines in the Western Pacific. A blind man could see it. Did Roosevelt know an attack was going to be launched against American forces? Probably. Roosevelt is a SOB for not saving American lives by pre-alerting Pearl. May he rest in hell, the damn Democrat!

Blather
Blather
Reply to  Brett Short
December 7, 2020

The Yaps? Not the C ockasians?

David Bowlas
David Bowlas
December 7, 2020

OH the Americans were doing their false flag events even in those days. We should have known that they would follow on from their genocide of the indigenous people. What a bunch of @@@@@@@@

Gaigedesu
Gaigedesu
December 7, 2020

None of this “proves” anything except that after WWI the US foolishly assumed that there could never again be another such conflict and so drastically reduced the size and expense of its military, and what remained suffered abject neglect. They were under-staffed, under-equipped, under-trained and under-maintained, a perfect recipe for an extensive string of errors that lined up just so to lead to an incident such as Pearl Harbor. One evidence of that fact is that when Pearl was attacked there were exactly zero submariners on active duty who ever so much had seen a “live” torpedo fired (training torpedoes… Read more »

penrose
penrose
December 7, 2020

Quick summary: The attack on Pearl Harbor was the goal of the Roosevelt Administration, so it was not a matter of surprise.

It was a matter of celebration.

CrowTRobot
CrowTRobot
December 8, 2020

This theory fails Occam’s razor. There is no way that the leaders of the USA allowed our primary military striking power to be destroyed. At the time, the battleship was considered the primary weapon of naval supremacy by most navies and naval leaders. They took decades to build and and untold amounts of treasure. The fact is this….there certainly was concern about a Japanese action, but like most western nations, Japan was viewed as a lightweight that could in know way launch a devastating attack across 4000 miles of open ocean while simultaneously striking the Philipines, Wake Island, and the… Read more »

Ronald Burcham
Ronald Burcham
December 8, 2020

This is reminiscent of 9-11 isn’t it? Presidents have routinely used false flag ops to generate public support for their political machinations that needlessly took the country to war. Lincoln’s false flag op was Fort Sumter. Woodrow Wilson’s was the Lusitania. False flag ops didn’t stop until DJT and the Democrats hate him for it. No war is no profits for their Establishment patrons

Last edited 3 years ago by Ronald Burcham

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