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Democrat president FDR got attack memo 3 days before Pearl Harbor attacked

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:12 PM

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Treasonous jew illegally ordered US military to stand down in Operation Northwoods style attack

Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo's military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR's failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near.

In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR's declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, "In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii."

The memo, published in the new book December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World went on to say that the Japanese were collecting "detailed technical information" that would be specifically used by its navy. To collect and analyze information, they were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates.

Historian and acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, author of the just released December 1941, doesn't blame FDR for blowing it, but instead tells Whispers that it "does suggest that there were more pieces to the puzzle" that the administration missed. The 70th anniversary of the attack is next month.

In fact, he compares the missed signals leading up to Japan's attack to 9/11, which government investigations also show that the Clinton and Bush administrations missed clear signals that an attack was coming. [ Read: Mengele Nazi Diaries Could Fetch $1 million.]

"So many mistakes through so many levels of Washington," said Shirley. "Some things never change."

His book also reveals another blockbuster historical moment: On the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, FDR and his war cabinet considered declaring war on all three Axis Powers—Japan, Germany, Italy—but in the end the president only targeted Japan. At the time, the U.S. was still healing from World War I and isolationism was the word of the day.

Shirley, aided by son Andrew as his chief researcher, takes a new tack in his book about Pearl Harbor. Instead of just writing how it all went down, his book attempts to give readers a feel for how the country felt 70 years ago. He accomplishes that by providing anecdotal information from nearly 2,000 newspapers and magazines. [Read: Hitler's Treaty Signing Desk Set To be Auctioned.]

"The goal here," Shirley writes in the preface, "is to make the reader feel as if they are experiencing the day to day events as they unfolded. Some historians don't like to go into the arduous tasks of going through thousands of newspapers preferring instead to rely on those bits and pieces of news reporting they may glean from other books. I did, and consequently the reader will find stories and information from the month of December 1941 they have never heard before."

One example: the Red Ryder BB gun was introduced in December 1941.

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:49 AM

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What, he needed a memo to tell him that? We had amassed quite a fleet of warships in Hawaii, it was hardly something that Japan was going to ignore.

First off, seriously, I'm not at all convinced of this jewish conspiracy, and I've read a lot of it. I'll concede that there's an element of international financial manipulation and wrong headed policy influence peddling, but whenever I track down arch baddies of eugenics, environmental destruction, and mass destruction I find I'm much more likely to end up in European halls of power or american university intellectuals than I am to find myself in israel or at some elders of zion meeting.

Fact is, FDR wanted into the war and not for good reasons. He was bent on manifest destiny pressing across the pacific. Realistically, it was an impractical empire to hold, since our possessions like the Philippines were already half a world a way by slow sea trip, and there were millions of asians with much more ready access to it.

As for what would have happened to Japan if it has ended up with a huge island empire of a billion people, I'm not sure. It might stayed been a major power player, or it might have been burdened down by its possessions like the USSR.

Thing about incident is, though, when you have a power or two that wants war, it doesn't matter what incident they use. Even if you prevent 100 out of 100 they'll just end up making something up, like the Gulf of Tonkin or the sinking of the Maine.

That's not what makes the war bad, though. The spanish american war was rather light as wars go. What makes the war bad is how well constructed the engine behind it is. In the case of FDR he'd built up a massive social engineering labor/industrial strata that could be turned towards any purpose he wanted. What he wanted was the pacific, and he got it. The cost was absurd, and the US had no use for it once it got it, and we ended up giving it away at the end of the 1980s. I'm afraid we're engaged in the same sort of pointless effort today in the Mid East.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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