I dont know if this is true or not but I found it interesting none-the-less.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke those famous words on December 7th,1941It was just after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and he was speaking to our nation.
Pearl Harbor was bombed on a quiet,sunny Sunday morning at 7:55 AM.Two U.S. soldiers saw the planes on the radar scopes,but were told by their superiors to ingore it because they were expecting some friendly B-17's coming from the mainland.30 minutes later the first bomb fell and almost killed a courier boy that was sent with a message to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base that the Japanese Imperial Navy was going to attack them.The Japanese caught us by surprise because of the tradition of not working on Sunday.
Throughout the first two years of the war,Roosevelt made life hard for the people of Japan.One of the policies he started was the American financial and economic embargo.Not only did it support China in its fight with Japan,but it also forced nuetral countries to side with the U.S. because if they gave aid to any of the Axis countries,the U.S. would no longer give them aid.
A second policy was the moral embargo of July of 1938.This banned nuetral countries from sending planes and equipment to countries who engaged in the bombing of civilians.This made the U.S. look good by protecting innocent people who were being killed just because they lived in a different country.By enforcing these policies,the U.S. made it so the Axis countries could not grow economically and thereby had to support themselves if they were against the Allies.These policies was a way for Roosevelt to attack the enemy with out actually declaring war.This would be one of the primary reasons why Roosevelt would allow Pearl Harbor to occur.
Since 94 percent of the public were against going to war,Roosevelt had to find a reason to enter the war without losing the support he was recieving from the vast majority of the public.Its no coincidence that half the Navys gunboats were reassigned to Pearl Harbor a few months before the attack or that evidence points to that Roosevelt may have known about the attack and maybe even helped plan it.
Roosevelt sent all the expendable ships to Pearl Harbor because he figured they might as well destroy the out-of-date ships that were replacable.The attack enraged to American commoner that they wanted the Japanese to pay for what appeared to be an act of betrayal,after they thought that negotiations were underway to promote peace not war.
Also,the two commanding officers that ignored the planes,were aquitted in a retrial of all accusations of derelictions of their duties.There was some reason they ignored the planes and it was thought that they had been ordered to by a higher ranking officer,maybe Roosevelt himself.
Before Japan or the U.S. had entered the war,Roosevelt had plans drawn up based on fighting a two ocean war.Why would he have plans drawn up if he wasnt going to enter the war?He was going to enter the war but he had to find the right reason.Or he may have seen that the U.S. would have to enter the war eventually and they might as well be in control when the first shots were fired.
While two people,Adm.Husband E.Kimmel and Gen.William Short were the scapegoats in this plan,it gave Roosevelt the means to enter World War Two without losing the support of the public. He knew that if enough people wanted something Congress would give it to them just so they would have a job after the next election.Therefore a majority of the Congress voted for the U.S. to enter the war on the side of the Allies.Roosevelt knew that if he could get one of the Axis powers to attack Americans then he could get the U.S. into the war.
Roosevelt and his cabinet covered their tracks very carefully so there would be no evidence of foul play.Roosevelt knew Japan was going to attack,but didnt take any peacekeeping actions because he wanted a reason to enter the war.
So what does everyone else think?Just thought I would give you all a little something to read about this infamous day in our history.
Oh yeah Arlie, you don`t want to go there again, lol.:wink: 
