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RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:50 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
yep. i'm half jewish
flags come and go, just rags created by men - our secret is we put our own people first
warspite1
So I still don't understand the reference to 6 million Jews in the gas chambers in October/November 1941, which is when presumably Roosevelt must have been planning the mass murder of his own people and a shed load of war material along with it? Do you know when the Wannsee conference was?
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:54 pm
by Shellshock
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Why does this rubbish persist??
It persists for the same reason the 911 Truther and Birther conspiracies will persist long after Bush and Obama are departed from this earth. Because somebody has a political axe to grind. There's a whole new generation out there who resent the direction FDR took this country back in the 1930s.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:54 pm
by Commander Stormwolf
grandfather ran left germany in the 1930s to kiev, killed in 1941
roosevelt needed to get our foreign manpower reserve into the war asap
germany first
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:57 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
grandfather ran left germany in the 1930s to kiev, killed in 1941
roosevelt needed to get our foreign manpower reserve into the war asap
germany first
warspite1
Please I am trying to have a sensible debate and understand your position. For that to happen it would help if you could answer my reasonable query. WHY is Roosevelt thinking about 6 million Jews in the gas chambers in late summer/early autumn of 1941???
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:15 pm
by obvert
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
....he was certainly glad pearl harbor happened
warspite1
I suspect glad wasn't the first emotion that FDR felt when he heard that 2,000 + of his fellow countrymen were dead, many more injured, his battleships sunk or badly damaged and the Philippines under attack - with no visible means of halting that invasion....
But then, if the conspiracy theorists are right, then of course he would be glad, because he got the war he wanted and, by definition, he would have been a mass murdering psycho who couldn't give a toss about ordinary American lives.
Why does this rubbish persist??
+1
End of discussion. Hopefully.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:15 pm
by Commander Stormwolf
WHY is Roosevelt thinking about 6 million Jews in the gas chambers in late summer/early autumn of 1941???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kcoNEU ... 1352580239
hitler said he would
over and over again in his speeches
my grandfather had a friend in germany, who was a pervert
he made the german girls working for him perform sexual favors, or else be fired
one day the SA came and killed him, then my grandfather fled afterwards
we took away all the germans' money in 1929 and made them work for us
he had friends in poland who joked
wasze ulice, nascze kamenice mocking the poles that we owned all their real estate
world war 2 happened because a whole generation of germans grew up hating us
roosevelt was our saviour, and japan was just a useful idiot
we would have attacked mexico, if they sided with hitler
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:21 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
WHY is Roosevelt thinking about 6 million Jews in the gas chambers in late summer/early autumn of 1941???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kcoNEU ... 1352580239
hitler said he would
over and over again in his speeches
my grandfather had a friend in germany, who was a pervert
he made the german girls working for him perform sexual favors, or else be fired
one day the SA came and killed him, then my grandfather fled afterwards
we took away all the germans' money in 1929 and made them work for us
he had friends in poland who joked
wasze ulice, nascze kamenice mocking the poles that we owned all their real estate
world war 2 happened because a whole generation of germans grew up hating us
roosevelt was our saviour, and japan was just a useful idiot
we would have attacked mexico, if they sided with hitler
warspite1
Goodbye.....

RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:35 pm
by Sardaukar
OK..this has gotten really weird, not to mention wrong forum for such discussion.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:37 pm
by moonraker65
The "Conspiracy Theory" about Pearl has done the rounds for many years. Is it just coincidence or did the US know in advance allowing Roosevelt to take America in to the war ?? I don't think we'll ever know for sure but you have to ponder the fact that the Japanese main targets were out of the way that day which does leave some doubts it has to be said
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:48 pm
by JeffroK
Can some JFB tell us when the japanese planned the PH attack?
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USS ... PTO-2.html
The attack was conceived and proposed by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, CinC of the Japanese Combined Fleet. In January 1941, Rear Admiral Tokijiro Onishi, Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet was ordered to make a preliminary study of the operation, and in the first part of September 1941 members of the Operations Section of the Naval General Staff and selected members of the Staffs of the Combined Fleet and the First Air Fleet commenced work on the details of the actual plan.
On 3 November, Admiral Nagano, Chief of the Naval General Staff, in cooperation with Admiral Yamamoto, definitely decided to attack Pearl Harbor if diplomatic negotiations with the United States failed. On 1 December 1941, Admiral Yamamoto finally approved the general plan as outlined above.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:50 pm
by Commander Stormwolf
doesn't really matter if roosevelt knew, i have no evidence for either for or against
just that it was good that the us entered the war in 1941, rather than 1946
usa and japan would have been at war whether pearl was a surprise or not
i saw a newspaper from december 8, 1941 that said the pacific fleet was NOT surprised
in fact it talks about the "battle of hawaii", and how 2 japanese carriers were sunk
other newspapers talked about colin kelley sinking a japanese battleship with his B17 - all BS
roosevelt's main achivement was to sour relations with japan so badly, that they would be inclined to make war
based on economic data, it was unlikely that the the us could possibly lose against japan, so there was little fear of japanese capabilities
and even if japan possessed some type of superweapon, it was no big loss
remember sir arthur harris "all the cities of germany, are not worth the bones of one british grenadier"
same manner of thinking
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:51 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: JeffK
Can some JFB tell us when the japanese planned the PH attack?
warspite1
Have a look at FDR's personal diary... he knew all about it apparently. On reflection it was probably his idea, and he discussed the details over tea with Tojo (with whom he was having an affair) - see post 7.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:54 pm
by MBF
ORIGINAL: Sardaukar
OK..this has gotten really weird, not to mention wrong forum for such discussion.
+1
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:55 pm
by JeffroK
You are right, if FDR new about it in May, and it was only only approved on 1 Dec, he must have been in on the detailed planning!!
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:37 pm
by TulliusDetritus
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
my grandfather had a friend in germany, who was a pervert
he made the german girls working for him perform sexual favors, or else be fired
we took away all the germans' money in 1929 and made them work for us
he had friends in poland who joked wasze ulice, nascze kamenice mocking the poles that we owned all their real estate
Where did I hear that before? Goebbels' radio perhaps? Stormwolf has possibly read that in some Aryan Brotherhood forum [;)]
"Stormwolf" he he he nazi troll alert in case you have missed it

RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:52 pm
by Commander Stormwolf
actually that girl's son joined the SS,
and he met with my father in the 1980s
seemed genuinely sorry for what they did, all of us
forgiveness can come, war has been over for a long time
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:27 pm
by slinkytwf
ORIGINAL: moonraker
...but you have to ponder the fact that the Japanese main targets were out of the way that day which does leave some doubts it has to be said
You don't need to ponder that at all. Reading is sufficient to debunk it. Samuel E. Morison lays it out plainly in the official US Navy history. Everyone from the political leadership on down through the admiralty and general staff was expecting an attack, and had been on some level of alert for weeks. The Enterprise had been sent to deliver a squadron of Wildcats to Wake I. Halsey and Nimitz had discussed the Japanese threat before Enterprise left Pearl, and Halsey was of the opinion that if his TF so much as saw a Japanese fishing boat he'd blow it out of the water (and Nimitz apparently gave him permission to do so). I *think* Saratoga was on her way back to Pearl having come up through Panama. Can't remember what Lexington was up to (doing this off top of my head). Fact checkers can correct my memory if it is off.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:45 pm
by slinkytwf
ORIGINAL: Commander Stormwolf
...roosevelt's main achivement was to sour relations with japan so badly...
Japan managed to sour the entire League of Nations against it by its war in China (especially the Nanjing massacre, which drew world-wide condemnation and made economic sanctions against Japan a political inevitability) and its continued expansion, first into northern Vichy Indochina and then finally gobbling up the rest of it.
c.f. The Origins of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, Akira Iriye among a plethora of other books on the political history.
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:07 pm
by TulliusDetritus
ORIGINAL: slinkytwf
ORIGINAL: moonraker
...but you have to ponder the fact that the Japanese main targets were out of the way that day which does leave some doubts it has to be said
You don't need to ponder that at all. Reading is sufficient to debunk it. Samuel E. Morison lays it out plainly in the official US Navy history. Everyone from the political leadership on down through the admiralty and general staff was expecting an attack, and had been on some level of alert for weeks. The Enterprise had been sent to deliver a squadron of Wildcats to Wake I. Halsey and Nimitz had discussed the Japanese threat before Enterprise left Pearl, and Halsey was of the opinion that if his TF so much as saw a Japanese fishing boat he'd blow it out of the water (and Nimitz apparently gave him permission to do so). I *think* Saratoga was on her way back to Pearl having come up through Panama. Can't remember what Lexington was up to (doing this off top of my head). Fact checkers can correct my memory if it is off.
a) Expecting a Japanese agressive move was not paranoia, a conspiracy. The analysis of the political situation led to that possible conclusion [;)]
b) Knowing that the Japanese were going to strike PH and not doing absolutely anything to alert that base is another thing.
The conspiracy nutters (with all due respect) believe the latter, not the former (a rational analysis, not ncessarily 100% accurate).
And in fact when they striked, some thought the attack had taken place in the Philipines, as attacking PH was really weird (militarily speaking).
RE: President FDR Knew About the Attack in May?
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:16 pm
by Commander Stormwolf
froze japanese assets, organized the oil embargo
taking away someone's money is a good way to make them upset
funny story, my friend's bank went bankrupt a few years ago
so they tried to foreclose his house
but he had some good contacts, he picked up some of the bailout money
no more mortgage
guess some things stay the same