I do not know whether you were being sarcastic or starting to wear a tinfoil hat. Seriously Tim that story has been debunked so long ago that its really in the black helicopter type of conspiracy. The Japanese IJN were planning the attack for at least a year and a half, probably longer. They sent several planning groups to look at the damage that the British raid on Taranto did to the Italian fleet. The US Navy could not have obliged them more. They dismissed radar reports. There were even some warnings a week ahead of the raid. The command (Kimmel et al., ) dismissed the possibility of an air raid, and thought the most likely attack was from local Japanese Americans. So to prevent sabotage, the aircraft were aligned up nicely down the middle of the tarmac. Unfortunately it made the aircraft very vulnerable to air attack. In the harbour same thing. Battleship row was great for ground security, and even more vulnerable than the Regina Marina in Taranto.
So I really don't think it was a Churchillian and Roosevelt conspiracy. The Japanese had almost the best navy at that point. If it were not for Midway and breaking the IJN codes they would have won the Pacific Theatre. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Even then Roosevelt and Churchill tricked us into the war through > conspiracy and allowing Perl Harbor to occur. Pre-civil war. Maybe the > civil rights era, but a suspicious man could have looked at that as an > attempt to expand certain voting blocks. > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >> When was the last time we did the right or good thing? WWII? >> >> Eric Roberts >> Owner/Developer >> Three Ravens Consulting >> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com >> http://www.threeravensconsulting.com >> tel: >> 630-881-1515 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: GMoney [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:36 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: Syria and Turkey >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Larry C. Lyons >> <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > >> > and it is that attitude that contributes to what happened in places >> > like Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia. The thing is that in the long run it >> > does affect you. Aside from the enlightened self interest here, why >> > not just do the right and good thing? >> > >> >> Because America always get's bitched-slapped for trying to do the right and >> good thing, and then Americans die, and then it escalates, and it turns >> into >> some 10 year clusterfuck. The path to hell truly is lined with good >> intentions. Then the politics start.....dems claimed Bush went into Iraq >> for >> oil or to get Cheney rich and republicans would claim Obama went into Syria >> looking for a political victory (the country rallies behind a war time >> president, especially a new war, with "good intentions")....and through it >> all...American soldiers keep dying. >> >> The world is full of bad people who like to kill each other. America can't >> change that, and I'm sick of trying. >> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352381 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
