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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (86841)	12/14/2000 8:47:12 AM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, I have seen an intriguing documentary suggesting that Admiral Kimmel was not privy to pertinent intelligence in spite of his requests for additional intelligence. In addition, there was good intelligence that was " mishandled" and ignored. Our battleships were destroyed but all of our aircraft carriers were out at sea . The aircraft carrier was the decisive factor in naval victories. I do know that FDR's cutting off the Japanese oil supply in July 1941 was a provocative act and he knew it. I do feel that critical military intelligence was at least mishandled and Admiral Kimmel was scapegoated when in reality he was misinformed either through incompetence or design. In the 1930s General Bill Mitchell warned that the US armed forces were degraded and foresaw the possibility of attack at Pearl Harbor. When Mitchell publicly charged the government with " incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense" he was court-martialed. Mitchell died in disgrace in 1936 but was posthumously awarded a special Congressional medal of honor. It seems that there was sufficient cause to be more vigilant than we were and I don't know enough detail to rule out the " sacrifice at Pearl Harbor" theory but the attack did serve to silence the isolationists. I recently met a guy who was on a battleship during the attack and he mentioned that the islands ammo supply was woefully inadequate. Mike