Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise

Franklin Roosevelt was a disciple of Hitler's propaganda methods. FDR, like Hitler, believed that a BIG lie was more believable than a LITTLE lie.  So the myth of the "surprise attack" on Pearl Harbor was created and persists to this day.

FDR was an Anglophile and wanted to help his buddy Churchill beat Hitler.  But the American public didn't want any more war. They remembered WW I which ended only 21 years before.

FDR wanted war primarily because he was the consummate politician lusting for POWER. He thirsted for the power to run a war and be a war-time leader.

War, you see, is the ultimate government project.  It gives government authority over an entire nation's economy and even social life. Power-hungry politicians in ALL nations love war.  It is OUR job, as THE PEOPLE, to keep our politicians in check.

Here is a timeline of events that proves Roosevelt not only KNEW the Japanese military would attack western interests SOMEWHERE, but that he PROVOKED them.

• Sometime in 1939, FDR asks the FBI to begin compiling lists of "dangerous enemy aliens."

• In October 1940, a full 14 MONTHS BEFORE the attack, the US Government reinstitutes the MILITARY DRAFT.  Length of service was to be one year.  (Somebody must have expected something to happen.  Otherwise, what was the draft for?)

• July 4, 1941: In an Independence Day broadcast, FDR says, "The United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship."  (FDR laid groundwork in the public mind that we must obviously "do something" about the dictatorships.)

• July 21, 1941: FIVE MONTHS before the attack, FDR asks Congress to extend the service time for draftees to two and a half years—a 150% INCREASE in time. The measure passes by only one vote, indicating weak support for a militaristic policy.

• July 26, 1941: FDR orders the Philippine Army to be incorporated into the U.S. Army for the "duration of the tension with Japan."  Douglas MacArthur, who has been commanding the Philippine forces, is given command over all U.S. forces in Asia as well.

• Sometime in July, 1941: FDR freezes all Japanese assets in the U.S. 

• August 1, 1941: FDR halts U.S. exports of oil to Japan, limiting exports to the UK, its empire and countries of the western hemisphere.  This action forces the Japanese government against the wall. They have no oil of their own.

• August 2, 1941: FDR starts sending Lend-Lease aid to Stalin and the USSR.

• Aug 6, 1941: Japanese government offers proposals to FDR with concessions in China and Indochina in return for the lifting of the freeze on Japanese assets. FDR rejects the proposals.  Japanese government asks for personal meeting between Prime Minister Konoye and FDR.

• Aug 9-12, 1941: FDR and Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.  FDR agrees to enter the war if Japan attacks British or Dutch colonies in the East Indies (where oil exists) or Malaya. The Atlantic Charter is signed, which states that all countries should have the right to hold free elections and be free from foreign pressure. These noble intentions have no effect on the war, but provide a "legal" justification for FDR to drag America into the war.

• Aug 17, 1941: U.S. presents formal warnings to Japan re its aggression in Asia.

• Sept 3, 1941: FDR tells Japanese government that meeting with Konoye cannot take place because he thinks the Japanese military will not keep the agreement.

• Sept 6, 1941: Japanese military persuades Konoye to prepare for war because oil stocks are running out. Konoye continues to make concessions to FDR.  US Ambassador to Japan warns FDR that US refusal to do business with Konoye will result in his replacement by a military dictatorship.

• Sep 18, 1941: FDR asks Congress for an additional $5.9 billion for Lend-Lease.

• Sep 23, 1941: FDR says at a press conference that he is thinking of arming merchant shipping against possible German attacks.

• Sep 28-Oct 1, 1941: Big meeting in Moscow between Ambassadors of U.S., UK and USSR. A joint announcement is made that the USSR will continue to get an INCREASING amount of aid from both the U.S. and England.

• Oct 9, 1941: FDR asks Congress to arm American merchant ships and to repeal certain sections of the Neutrality Act.

• Oct 16, 1941: Japanese Prime Minister Konoye resigns, War Minister Tojo takes offices of Prime Minister, War Minister and Home Affairs Minister. Decision to go to war has not yet been made.

• Nov 2, 1941: The US Coast Guard is brought under control of the Navy.

• Nov 5, 1941: Japanese government decides to make further concessions to FDR but set deadline to end negotiations at the end of November. By this time, U.S. codebreakers have broken the Japanese code and are following all of their military communications.

• Nov 7, 1941: Report issued to FDR about the number of Japanese people living on west coast. Learns number is 126,947 from the 1940 census.

• Nov 10, 1941: In a public speech, Churchill announces that “should the US become involved in war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour.”

• Nov 13, 1941: Changes in Neutrality Laws pass Congress by a razor thin margin. US merchant ships may now be armed and enter war zones.

• Nov 20-25, 1941: Japanese government makes proposals to FDR for an interim settlement, which are rejected. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepares a negotiating reply which is not delivered.

• Nov 26, 1941: FDR asks FBI to compile complete list of Japanese, BY NAME AND ADDRESS, living on west coast and to take the information from the 1930 and 1940 census.  (And YOU thought your census data was "private!")

• Nov 26-27, 1941: FDR and Hull present final terms to Japan demanding that Japan leave China and Indochina and recognize the Chang Kai-Shek government of China. FDR promises to return to negotiations re new trade and raw materials. On the 26th, Japanese aircraft carriers leave home base for Pearl Harbor. On the 27th, after reading more coded communications and knowing what was happening, US government issues war warning to overseas commanders.

• Nov 29, 1941: Japanese government decides FDR's final terms are unacceptable and Japan must go to war.

• Dec 2, 1941: Japanese naval headquarters transmits coded message to the carrier force that negotiations with FDR have broken down and that the Pearl Harbor attack is "on."

• Dec 5, 1941: FDR makes a "final appeal" to the Japanese Emperor for peace. This angers the Japanese government because nobody is supposed to talk to the Emperor or give him the burden of such an important decision.  Japanese government does not reply to FDR but late in the day, begins sending what turns out to be their final message to the U.S. The first 13 parts of the message are quickly broken and translated by the U.S. codebreakers and sent to FDR.  He "understands" war is imminent, but does not share the message with his two leading military commanders, Gen. George Marshall or Admiral Stark, or his commanders at Pearl Harbor, Kimmel and Short.

• Dec 7, 1941: The 14th part of the Japanese message, stating clearly that relations are being terminated, is decoded and delivered to FDR around 9:00 AM. The Japanese Embassy in Washington receives the message and is told to deliver it to FDR around 2:30 PM.  The attack itself commenced at 7:55 AM Honolulu time, which would be 1:55 PM in Washington. But FDR already had the message on his desk for over four hours by then.

• Dec 8, 1941: FDR goes before Congress, asks for a declaration of war, and gets it.

• Dec 12, 1941: FDR issues the first of several executive orders that will finally culminate in EO 9066 that finalizes the roundup of Japanese people in the western states to incarcerate them in "internment" camps.  

Knowing what we know about government, (that it moves SLOWLY), we should be enlightened by the fact that FDR  asked for a declaration of war THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER the attack.  

If the attack was a genuine "surprise,"  wouldn't he and the Congress have been eager to consult with Japan and find out WHY they attacked?  Wouldn't Congressional hearings have been held?  Wouldn't a commission have been created to study the issue?  Wouldn't the Japanese government been consulted before acting?  

This was no "surprise" attack.

FDR was WELL PREPARED.  He WANTED it, and PROVOKED it, with his embargo on oil sales, closing of ports to Japanese vessels and freezing of Japanese assets in America.  (An embargo by itself is an act of war.)

Thus, the TACTICAL truth is, FDR actually declared war on Japan five months BEFORE Pearl Harbor, with his embargo, etc.

Our boys were heroes at Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Normandy, Bastogne, etc. because they did what was expected of them. They fought and died for their country, believing that our freedom was in genuine peril.

But the casualties at Pearl Harbor were the results of overt political machinations by FDR to arouse war fever in the American public.

In time, FDR will be seen for the power-lusting warmonger that he really was.  The blood of 405,399 American dead and 671,846 wounded is on his hands.