Liberals, Was The Attack On Pearl Harbor An "Inside Job"?

Question

did Roosevelt know that the Japanese were going to attack?

Answer 1

There have been quite a number of books and studies written suggesting that Roosevelt knew an attack was imminent but knew the only way Americans would join the war (in Europe) was if we were attacked on our own soil. The US or Great Britain certainly told the Germans that the Lusitania was bringing arms and weapons to Europe in an attempt to impassion the US into action.

The strike at Pearl Harbor may have been expected, but perhaps the timing wasn't. Our carriers weren't there but the rest of the fleet was. Even though the Germans had been involved in hostilities in Europe for years and Churchhill was begging us to help them the US still had diplomatic relations with Germany until Pearl Harbor. If the Japanese attacked the US why declare war on both Japan and Germany?

Obviously the oil blockade of Japan was to instigate a war that would get us involved in Europe. But the Japanese Navy was so large the US could not have planned on losing the amount of ships it did in Pearl Harbor.

So yes, Roosevelt knew he would force Japan into attacking the US. But I believe he was caught unaware when it actually did happen. But the idea wasn't to fight Japan, it was to fight in Europe. It was believed, falsely, that Russia and China would team up to defeat Japan, and that Japan would be a easy opponent.

Answer 2

Who really knows? Maybe he did look the other way a bit. If so, he did it because greedy conservatives (one of those being the Bush-clan) were busy dealing with the evil empires and prohibiting US involvement.

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And earlier than that. As reported in 1994 by John Loftus and Mark Aarons (The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People), through Union Banking Corporation (UBC), Prescott Bush, and his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, along with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, financed Adolf Hitler before and during World War II.

According to New York Times reporter Charles Higham (Trading With The Enemy; The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949), the US government had known that many American companies were aiding Hitler, like Standard Oil, General Motors and Chase Bank, all of which was sanctioned after Pearl Harbor.

UBC kept banks operating on both sides during the war so that no matter which way the war turned out, they would still profit.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It must have been the same cabal that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon because everybody know that it was cruise missles launched from CIA flying saucers and not airliners hijacked by Arab Terrorists.

Answer 5

Is this meant in a smart a-s way ? if so ....... we were attacked then directly by the JAPANESE government. so we were justified in doing what we did. . The terrorist that planned and carried out 9-11 were from several different countries . so why did we go to Iraq ? That wasnt the Iraq gov . Which I`m sure Suddam didn`t disagree with their actions but that`s not the point is it ?

Answer 6

According to documentaries I've seen on it over the years, it was a known fact that it was an inside job. Much like today's war in Iraq.

Answer 7

No, but like Jesi said, books have been written and I have read one of those books in recent years, and Roosevelt did indeed do all he could to incite the Japanese into attacking us. Perhaps you should spend less time on yahoo answers and read a book on the subject.

Answer 8

Possibly. Only FDR knows the truth. He did manipulate events in the Pacific in order to provoke an attack.

Answer 9

There seems to be proof that we knew of the attack and did nothing. Oldest trick in the book- attack your self in order to go to war.

Answer 10

no, we knew something was up but didnt expect it at pearl harbor