Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Later

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Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Later

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On Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, President Barack Obama paid homage to American troops who fought in World War II and saluted his home state (sorry, birthers) in a statement declaring the day “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.” —KA

BBC:

“Their tenacity helped define the Greatest Generation and their valour fortified all who served during World War II,” he said.

“As a nation, we look to December 7 1941 to draw strength from the example set by these patriots and to honour all who have sacrificed for our freedoms.”

At 7:55 am (17:55 GMT), the moment Japanese bombers swooped on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, a ceremony will be held by the wreck of the USS Arizona, one of 12 vessels sunk that day, seven decades ago.

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By thecrow, December 8, 2011 at 4:38 am Link to this comment

“The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.”

- George W. Bush in his diary, 9/11/2001

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/an-opportunity/

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moonraven- you’re on the scent.
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Facts never taught in highschools:
1) the USA had already declared war on BOTH Japan and Germany 2+years before Pearl Harbor.

Roosevelt, since 1938, had been shipping massive quantities of both military hardware and mil-related products, by the millions of tons to England as prelude to forcing US voter sentiment to shift toward war. This President, concurrently, had enforced a worldwide embargo of all fuels and petroleum products against Japan since 1939, fuels the Japanese had to import to survive. To ensure war on both fronts, Roosevelt proceeded to install a massive naval fleet in occupied Hawaii, knowing this would be the last straw for the Japanese, and knowing they had no choice but to attack this fleet.

2) President Roosevelt, in the last year of his presidency, ordered a submarine-enforced blockade of Japan (~1943), keeping the Japanese, with their fleets being decimated, from importing ANY matl’s vital for life. There was never any threat of massive American casualties during an eventual occupation of Japan (a stupid but accepted myth). The nuclear attacks on Japan, committed after two requests by the Japanese for surrender, were the work of Roosevelt’s also cowardly successor, President Harry Truman. History is not taught in our schools. Or on Truthdig.

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