re: Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

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Surprised there isn't a thread on here about how the USA planned the attack to get them involved in wwii.

Honestly, som of those theories make some sense.

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Well, I guess I will have to be "that guy" and honestly I was unaware of this stuff until the History Channel presented much of it at 4 am this morning.

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The Admiral Who Took the Fall for Pearl Harbor
75 years later, the family of Adm. Husband Kimmel—who commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in 1941—is still fighting to restore his honor

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But that just got me to looking into it.

Turns out that We and the British first tried to provoke the Germans.

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The President offered numerous provocations to Germany: freezing its assets; occupying Iceland; shipping 50 destroyers to Britain; and having U.S. warships escort Allied convoys. Roosevelt and Churchill hoped to duplicate the success of the Lusitania incident. But the Germans gave them no satisfaction. They knew America’s entry into World War I had shifted the balance of power against them, and they shunned a repetition of that scenario.

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LINK

When that didn't work, it was decided to "USE" Japan as our "Huckle berry".

The McCollum Memo:
The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor

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The memo, scanned below, detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over the course of 1941, implemented all 8 of the recommendations contained in the McCollum memo. Following the eighth provocation, Japan attacked. The public was told that it was a complete surprise, an "intelligence failure", and America entered World War Two.

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What really happened