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Joey if FDR knew the NIps were gona bomb Pearl their planes would have found an empty harbor. Our Aircraft Carriers would have been lieing in wait, to hit them hard. There is no way that any President would have left 8 Battleships sitting like ducks in the harbor.

What part of the Far east did FDR give away. If you remember, at the time the little yellow men were not given very much credit.


Now here is the real reason why FDR didn't know about the Jap plans for Pearl. FDR wanted to fight the Germans and not the Japs. Fighting the Japs would not only be a distraction but the WRONG WAR. It was the Japs, Americans were mad at not the Krauts. How was FDR going to get America involved in a war with Germany, if he was allready fighting the Japs.

FDR got lucky and Hitler declared war on America on December 11, 1941. Hitler did so because he thought the Japs would then declare war on Russia to help him out. But the Japs knew better, because they had tangled with the Russians a coupla years earlier up in Manchuria. The Japs got their as$$es kicked by the Russians. Russian T-34's sliced right through the rice burning, beer cans that the Japs called tanks.

Hindsight is 20/20 Joey.