FDR and the
Pearl Harbor
attack
Posted:
May 20, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
"When
Franklin Roosevelt died during the closing days of World War
II, it fell to Truman to end the war and formulate policies
for a new world order."
�The Smithsonian Treasury: The Presidents, 1991
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt is much loved and revered by Democrats, but
not everyone felt that way during his administration. In
1935, Arthur Henning of the Chicago Tribune said, "The
New Deal will bring the Communist Party within striking
distance of overthrow of the American form of government.
..." In the same year, Mark Sullivan of the Buffalo
Evening News was even more alarmed when he said, "...
The New Deal is to
America
what the early phase of Nazism was to
Germany
."
For
those of us who have invested our time to research world
events and what FDR did domestically, that man is hardly
someone to admire or hold in high regard. Not only did FDR
stomp on the U.S. Constitution, he wanted
the Japanese to attack
America
while concealing his plans from the American people. One
shouldn't believe everything they read in a book, but in the
case of "Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl
Harbor" by Robert B. Stinnett, there can be no denying
the awful truth that FDR not only knew the Japanese were
going to attack, but official documents prove FDR wanted
them to strike America first.
Stinnett
spent 16 years doing his research and fighting in the courts
to obtain a plethora of shocking documents under the Freedom
of Information Act � their authenticity cannot be denied. This
link to a .pdf file provides a few of the official
documents, i.e., "It (official document) directs the
Hawaiian U.S. Army commander, Lt. Gen. Walter Short, to
follow an official
U.S.
government desire: 'The
United States
desires that
Japan
commit the first overt act.'"
Pearl
Harbor
was no surprise. "Day of infamy," indeed.
While
Stinnett should be commended for his commitment to expose
the truth and help clear the names of those military
officers wrongly blamed, I was shocked by his comment on
page 259: "As heinous as it seems to families and
veterans of World War II, of which the author is one, the
Pearl Harbor attack was, from the White House perspective,
something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater
evil � the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the
Holocaust and were poised to invade England."
There
were 2,403 Americans who died at
Pearl Harbor
. According to Stinnett, who backs up FDR, those 2,403
Americans were acceptable casualties in order to take
America
into war. Stinnett goes on to say (same page), "Had the
facts uncovered in this book been known immediately after
the war ended, and had Roosevelt explained his war
strategies and tactics to the families who lost their sons
at Pearl Harbor, how different American history might be
viewed today."
I
feel confident in saying that the families of those 2,403
Americans slaughtered at Pearl Harbor with the full
knowledge of a sitting president of the
United States
would not
have been very understanding. I was further shocked by
Stinnett's next comments (same page), "The truth that
has been told here does not diminish FDR's magnificent
contributions to the American people. His legacy should not
be tarnished by the truth. As with all American presidents,
Roosevelt must be viewed in the total context of his
administration, not just
Pearl Harbor
." Quite frankly, I would be ashamed to say such a
thing.
Allowing
Japan
to "commit the first overt act" � military
aggression against
America
on our own soil � can hardly be called anything but
murder. The American people deserved to be told the truth by
FDR and what he was planning. Instead, those whose loved
ones in uniform at
Pearl Harbor
that were to be sacrificed were never given any warning.
They were simply slaughtered on a beautiful Sunday morning.
But, it wasn't FDR or his Cabinet who would be on the
battlefield. It was the sons, husband, fathers and brothers
out in
America
who would spill their blood. Shouldn't they have been told
the truth? Instead, unsuspecting Americans were sold a
grotesque lie.
There
is no question that Adolf Hitler had to be stopped; he was a
monster. While people of the Jewish faith were the primary
target of Hitler, more than 3 million Poles and other
Gentiles also perished during the Holocaust, including a
million Catholics, all verified by meticulous records kept
by the Germans.(1) Had Hitler not gotten the help he needed
from certain heads of state and influential families behind
the scenes, and had the rest of Europe not sat around on
their hands while the Third Reich was building power, Hitler
could have been stopped.
While
I'm certain many will disagree, I don't believe the White
House and our State Department did everything in their power
diplomatically to garner the immense forces in Europe to
stand against Hitler without war because it wasn't in the
best interests of the international banking cartel who have
owned
Washington
,
D.C.
, since 1913. We should never forget any man, woman or
child, regardless of religion or ethnic origin, who died
under the Third Reich. We should also never forget what FDR
did and then covered up � along with 11
U.S.
presidents since his administration.
(1)
See Michael Berenbaum, ed., "A Mosaic of Victims:
Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis" (New
York/London, 1990), David Rousset, "The Other
Kingdom" (New York, 1947), 13-14 and Richard C. Lukas,
"The Polish Experience During the Holocaust," in
"A Mosaic of Victims," Michael Berenbaum, ed. (New
York/London, 1990), 89.
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