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To: jbe who wrote (2139)12/8/1999 5:47:00 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
Please.

Considering all the evidence you'd have to be willfully ignorant to believe that FDR didn't know what he was doing. Every act FDR took seemed designed to bring Pearl Harbor about. Remember, it was either FDR or one of his cronies that said that "Nothing happens by accident in politics". Remember too that FDR wasn't brain-addled yet like he was at the second and bigger disaster known as Yalta.

Pearl Harbor was no surprise and the scholarship will increasingly detail that. The Bruce Bartlett review reflects that:

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Robert B. Stinnett believes he has found some guns that may not be smoking but were certainly fired at some point. The first is a memo from Lt. Cmdr. Arthur H. McCollum, the top expert on Japan in naval intelligence before the war. Dated Oct. 7, 1940, the memo outlines an eight-point plan to force Japan to attack the U.S. Among the recommendations were the relocation of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Hawaii and an embargo on all trade with Japan. Mr. Stinnett correctly notes that every item on McCollum's list was acted upon -- starting the day after Roosevelt received the memo.

Mr. Stinnett turned up some other guns with warm barrels. For example, he discovered evidence that the U.S. had broken not only Japan's diplomatic code but also many of its military codes, which pinpointed Japanese intentions even more precisely. Mr. Stinnett also found evidence that the Japanese fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor had not maintained complete radio silence, as has long been claimed officially, and that U.S. government officials knew it.

Mr. Stinnett believes all of this -- along with what was already known -- adds up to an indictment of Roosevelt for provoking the Pearl Harbor attack and failing to warn his military commanders there when he knew an attack was imminent. Furthermore, he asserts that Roosevelt instituted a cover-up of his actions that lasted more than 50 years.

Mr. Stinnett has written a fascinating and readable book that is exceptionally well-presented. (He does a great service by reprinting many of his newly discovered documents.) But while he brings us closer to a final judgment, the case against Roosevelt remains circumstantial. In short, there is still a reasonable doubt. No firsthand evidence exists that Roosevelt actually saw this material at the right time and drew the necessary conclusions.
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Ask any lawyer or judge and they will tell you what they learned in law school - that the most reliable evidence is circumstantial evidence because it does not rely on human memory or motive. We already know the lengths that FDR supporters will go to lie for their man.
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