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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: DavesM who wrote (113944)5/16/2005 1:57:13 AM
From: haqihana  Read Replies (1) of 793969
 
Dave, FDR needed a war badly to bring the nation out of the Great Depression. None of his programs were working. Before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, he was in the process of trashing every treaty we ever had with Japan, and showed then no respect at all, which in those days of "saving face" was a slap in their face.

Then one has to consider that it is poor military tactics to bring an entire fleet into one port when there is war in the world. The military leaders of the Navy, Army, Marines, and Army Air Force in Hawaii let the War Department know that they were against doing such a thing, but FDR sent an executive order directly from the White House to bring the entire Pacific fleet into Pearl. If it had not been for Bull Halsey faking engine failure in his carrier task force that was out of port on maneuvers, we would have had no Navy left in the Pacific to stem the tide of the Japanese advances.

One of my uncles was a naval officer, stationed in Pearl Harbor, and he verified the above was true.
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