HOW-OF-WHY
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
WARMONGERS
The last eight years show just how deceitful U.S. presidents can be. The past provides portraits of how it has changed history and how greed, ego, war and national armed force seems to guide Presidential power
As of 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had failed for eight years to get America out of the Great Depression। FDR knew his historical legacy was destroyed if he couldn't come up with something big to overshadow his failure stoping the Great Depression. The mass media in America had been pushing for America to enter World War Two on England's side. Roosevelt decided to rescue his historical legacy and satisfy the media by pushing America into World War Two, despite the massive opposition to another war by the majority of Americans.
(A very few small nations such as Sweden and Switzerland have successfully avoided the bloodbaths of recent wars. Both of these nations are prosperous and have avoided amassing huge national debts that usually happens during major wars).
America was at peace until Pearl Harbor was attacked (Dec. 7th, 1941).The American public had pressured Congress into creating a series of Neutrality Acts during the 1930s. Most Americans saw World War One as a needless and costly war that America had been misled into entering. The USA lost 120,000 soldiers to warfare and disease, and another 200,000 had been injured. American’s perception is that our nation got exactly nothing out of World War One, but had insured that England avoided losing the war. The Neutrality Acts were designed to keep America from selling weapons to belligerent nations engaged in war.
FDR had promised the American public that he would keep America out of war during the Presidential campaign in 1940. Then as soon as he won the election, FDR began work, doing everything he could to push America into the war. Roosevelt secretly allowed tons of war material to be shipped to the English from the very start of the war in Europe. He completely ignored the Neutrality Act when he gave the British 50 destroyers in September 1940. England had illegally received long range Catalina observation aircraft from America, thanks to Roosevelt. One of these Catalinas played an important role, spotting the German Battleship Bismarck, which led to its sinking. Roosevelt passed the Lend Lease Act in March 1941. England then received unlimited military aid from the U.S. Shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. FDR began sending military aid to the the Soviet Union, sending two billion dollars in war material before Pearl Harbor. Most Americans opposed Communism, yet Roosevelt sent Stalin two billion in weapons.
In August 1941 the U.S. was still at peace, FDR secretly met Winston Churchill in the north Atlantic on a British Battleship and established the "Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic Charter called for "free trade, self-governed nations and military disarmament." But Roosevelt and Churchill made plans to pull America into the war ignoring of what the American public wanted. The Atlantic Charter proved to be a joke. India and the Philippines somehow never got "self-determination" under Churchill and Roosevelt. The "free trade" provision was violated in just a few months when FDR ordered an embargo of scrap iron and oil against Japan. FDR was arming America to the teeth and reinstating the draft in despite to his call for "military disarmament."
The truth always comes out in the long run, and the more truth that comes out, the worse FDR looks. Two incidents were well known from 1941, which involved German submarines torpedoing U.S. destroyers. FDR had ordered US destroyers to hunt down German U-Boats. If the American destroyer sunk the U-Boat, it was covered up. If the U-Boat defended itself and sunk the American destroyer, the Germans portrayed it as an “unprovoked” hostile action. FDR traded the lives of American sailors on a destroyer for a chance to get into World War Two.
FDR discovered another way to World War Two by way of Japan. In July of 1941, Japanese assets in England and America were frozen, illegally confiscating Japanese property. Churchill and FDR cutting off 90% of Japan’s oil supply and 75% of its foreign trade, also imposed a trade embargo. During a meeting with Churchill in August of 1941, Roosevelt made an agreement with Churchill to declare war on Japan if Japan invaded British or Dutch colonies in Asia. On November 26th, 1941, FDR's Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered an ultimatum to Japan; dictating what policies Japan must follow.
FDR approved a CIA operation in April 1941 to allow American fighter pilots to transfer to the "Flying Tigers" squadron to fight the Japanese in China. The CIA actually recruited fighter pilots from aircraft carriers and fighter bases during peacetime. The first pilots arrived in China in September 1941. The Flying Tigers had every intention of waging war on Japan whether war officially broke out or not.
Before the Pearl Harbor attack, 80% of Americans opposed getting involved in World Two. And FDR had covertly sent massive military aid to the English and the Soviets and did everything possible to ignore the interests of the majority of American citizens. FDR was another deceitful President. World War Two increasingly looks like a war that did not the highest interests of Americans.
It is clear that FDR and Churchill did all they could think of to get Japan to attack English or American Pacific islands.
On November 25, 1941 Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Publicly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow...”
Since World War II many people (notably Gore Vidal) have claimed that Washington knew the attack was coming. When Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he discovered America’s ability to intercept Japan’s radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat FDR. Dewey planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the attack. General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches.
Japan’s naval leaders did not realize America had cracked their codes, and Dewey’s speeches could have revealed America’s code-breaking advantage. So, Dewey said nothing, and FDR was elected president for the fourth time.
Robert Stinnett, author of Day Of Deceit, provides the proof. Stinnett’s book is dedicated to Congressman John Moss, the author of America’s Freedom of Information Act. According to Stinnett, the answers to the secrets of Pearl Harbor can be found in the large number of documents he was able to attain through Freedom of Information Act requests. Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He read over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. The research led Stinnet to this conclusion: FDR knew.
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars,” was Roosevelt’s campaign statement of 1940. He wasn’t being kidding. FDR’s military and State Department leaders agreed that a victorious Nazi Germany would threaten the national security of the United States. In White House meetings the strong feeling was that America needed a call to action. This is not what the public wanted, however. Again, eighty to ninety percent of the American people wanted nothing to do with another European war. According to Stinnett, FDR provoked Japan to attack the USA, let it happen at Pearl Harbor, and used it to lead the country into another war. Many who knew Roosevelt during that time hinted that FDR wasn’t being forthright about his intentions in Europe. After the attack, on the Sunday evening of December 7, 1941, Roosevelt had a brief meeting in the White House with Edward R. Murrow, the journalist, and William Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services. Later Donovan told an assistant that he believed FDR welcomed the attack and didn’t seem surprised. The only thing Roosevelt seemed to care about, Donovan felt, was if the public would now support a Declaration of War. In October 1940 FDR adopted a specific strategy to incite Japan to commit an overt act of war. Part of the strategy was to move America’s Pacific fleet out of California and anchor it in Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Richardson, the commander of the Pacific fleet, very strongly opposed keeping the ships in harm’s way in Hawaii. He expressed this to Roosevelt, and so the President relieved him of his command. Later Richardson quoted Roosevelt as saying: “Sooner or later the Japanese will commit an overt act against the United States and the nation will be willing to enter the war.”
If you believe that government conspiracies can’t possibly happen, Day Of Deceit proves otherwise. Stinnett’s well researched and documented book makes the case that the highest officials of the government—including the highest official—fooled and deceived millions of Americans about one of the most important days in the history of the country. It now is considered one of the most definitive book on the subject. Gore Vidal has said, “...Robert Stinnet has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day Of Deceit shows that the famous ‘surprise’ attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers...” And John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Pearl Harbor book, Infamy, said, “Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett’s Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence.”
As of 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had failed for eight years to get America out of the Great Depression। FDR knew his historical legacy was destroyed if he couldn't come up with something big to overshadow his failure stoping the Great Depression. The mass media in America had been pushing for America to enter World War Two on England's side. Roosevelt decided to rescue his historical legacy and satisfy the media by pushing America into World War Two, despite the massive opposition to another war by the majority of Americans.
(A very few small nations such as Sweden and Switzerland have successfully avoided the bloodbaths of recent wars. Both of these nations are prosperous and have avoided amassing huge national debts that usually happens during major wars).
America was at peace until Pearl Harbor was attacked (Dec. 7th, 1941).The American public had pressured Congress into creating a series of Neutrality Acts during the 1930s. Most Americans saw World War One as a needless and costly war that America had been misled into entering. The USA lost 120,000 soldiers to warfare and disease, and another 200,000 had been injured. American’s perception is that our nation got exactly nothing out of World War One, but had insured that England avoided losing the war. The Neutrality Acts were designed to keep America from selling weapons to belligerent nations engaged in war.
FDR had promised the American public that he would keep America out of war during the Presidential campaign in 1940. Then as soon as he won the election, FDR began work, doing everything he could to push America into the war. Roosevelt secretly allowed tons of war material to be shipped to the English from the very start of the war in Europe. He completely ignored the Neutrality Act when he gave the British 50 destroyers in September 1940. England had illegally received long range Catalina observation aircraft from America, thanks to Roosevelt. One of these Catalinas played an important role, spotting the German Battleship Bismarck, which led to its sinking. Roosevelt passed the Lend Lease Act in March 1941. England then received unlimited military aid from the U.S. Shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. FDR began sending military aid to the the Soviet Union, sending two billion dollars in war material before Pearl Harbor. Most Americans opposed Communism, yet Roosevelt sent Stalin two billion in weapons.
In August 1941 the U.S. was still at peace, FDR secretly met Winston Churchill in the north Atlantic on a British Battleship and established the "Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic Charter called for "free trade, self-governed nations and military disarmament." But Roosevelt and Churchill made plans to pull America into the war ignoring of what the American public wanted. The Atlantic Charter proved to be a joke. India and the Philippines somehow never got "self-determination" under Churchill and Roosevelt. The "free trade" provision was violated in just a few months when FDR ordered an embargo of scrap iron and oil against Japan. FDR was arming America to the teeth and reinstating the draft in despite to his call for "military disarmament."
The truth always comes out in the long run, and the more truth that comes out, the worse FDR looks. Two incidents were well known from 1941, which involved German submarines torpedoing U.S. destroyers. FDR had ordered US destroyers to hunt down German U-Boats. If the American destroyer sunk the U-Boat, it was covered up. If the U-Boat defended itself and sunk the American destroyer, the Germans portrayed it as an “unprovoked” hostile action. FDR traded the lives of American sailors on a destroyer for a chance to get into World War Two.
FDR discovered another way to World War Two by way of Japan. In July of 1941, Japanese assets in England and America were frozen, illegally confiscating Japanese property. Churchill and FDR cutting off 90% of Japan’s oil supply and 75% of its foreign trade, also imposed a trade embargo. During a meeting with Churchill in August of 1941, Roosevelt made an agreement with Churchill to declare war on Japan if Japan invaded British or Dutch colonies in Asia. On November 26th, 1941, FDR's Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered an ultimatum to Japan; dictating what policies Japan must follow.
FDR approved a CIA operation in April 1941 to allow American fighter pilots to transfer to the "Flying Tigers" squadron to fight the Japanese in China. The CIA actually recruited fighter pilots from aircraft carriers and fighter bases during peacetime. The first pilots arrived in China in September 1941. The Flying Tigers had every intention of waging war on Japan whether war officially broke out or not.
Before the Pearl Harbor attack, 80% of Americans opposed getting involved in World Two. And FDR had covertly sent massive military aid to the English and the Soviets and did everything possible to ignore the interests of the majority of American citizens. FDR was another deceitful President. World War Two increasingly looks like a war that did not the highest interests of Americans.
It is clear that FDR and Churchill did all they could think of to get Japan to attack English or American Pacific islands.
On November 25, 1941 Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Publicly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow...”
Since World War II many people (notably Gore Vidal) have claimed that Washington knew the attack was coming. When Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he discovered America’s ability to intercept Japan’s radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat FDR. Dewey planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the attack. General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches.
Japan’s naval leaders did not realize America had cracked their codes, and Dewey’s speeches could have revealed America’s code-breaking advantage. So, Dewey said nothing, and FDR was elected president for the fourth time.
Robert Stinnett, author of Day Of Deceit, provides the proof. Stinnett’s book is dedicated to Congressman John Moss, the author of America’s Freedom of Information Act. According to Stinnett, the answers to the secrets of Pearl Harbor can be found in the large number of documents he was able to attain through Freedom of Information Act requests. Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He read over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. The research led Stinnet to this conclusion: FDR knew.
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars,” was Roosevelt’s campaign statement of 1940. He wasn’t being kidding. FDR’s military and State Department leaders agreed that a victorious Nazi Germany would threaten the national security of the United States. In White House meetings the strong feeling was that America needed a call to action. This is not what the public wanted, however. Again, eighty to ninety percent of the American people wanted nothing to do with another European war. According to Stinnett, FDR provoked Japan to attack the USA, let it happen at Pearl Harbor, and used it to lead the country into another war. Many who knew Roosevelt during that time hinted that FDR wasn’t being forthright about his intentions in Europe. After the attack, on the Sunday evening of December 7, 1941, Roosevelt had a brief meeting in the White House with Edward R. Murrow, the journalist, and William Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services. Later Donovan told an assistant that he believed FDR welcomed the attack and didn’t seem surprised. The only thing Roosevelt seemed to care about, Donovan felt, was if the public would now support a Declaration of War. In October 1940 FDR adopted a specific strategy to incite Japan to commit an overt act of war. Part of the strategy was to move America’s Pacific fleet out of California and anchor it in Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Richardson, the commander of the Pacific fleet, very strongly opposed keeping the ships in harm’s way in Hawaii. He expressed this to Roosevelt, and so the President relieved him of his command. Later Richardson quoted Roosevelt as saying: “Sooner or later the Japanese will commit an overt act against the United States and the nation will be willing to enter the war.”
If you believe that government conspiracies can’t possibly happen, Day Of Deceit proves otherwise. Stinnett’s well researched and documented book makes the case that the highest officials of the government—including the highest official—fooled and deceived millions of Americans about one of the most important days in the history of the country. It now is considered one of the most definitive book on the subject. Gore Vidal has said, “...Robert Stinnet has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day Of Deceit shows that the famous ‘surprise’ attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers...” And John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Pearl Harbor book, Infamy, said, “Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett’s Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence.”
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