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Originally Posted by icenine

Boy you just seem to sink your teeth into any sort of casual mistruths you come across. You really need to objectively read some history. I do not buy the back door theory that FDR allowed Pearl Harbor to happen in order to get us into World War II just as I do not believe Michael Moore's similar theory about Bush II allowing 9-11 to happen.
FDR was not posing as anti-war either...google lend-lease when you get a chance.

Its no conspiracy theory. Its not a secret that Ambassador Grew alerted the State Department in January 1941 that he had picked up intelligence that Pearl Harbor was at risk of an attack from Japan. Problem is no one took him seriously.

In December 1941, after US cryptographers had broken Japanese code, we knew a Japanese attack might be coming, but the cryptographers were unable to discern where the attack would be. No one put the pieces together. No one put the US pacific fleet on alert.

And of course, that morning, radar operators on Oahu picking up the inbound Japanese aircraft. No one believed them either.

It wasn't a conspiracy. It was a human failure of communication, poor preparation and poor reaction of epic proportion.