From: brockgeorge26@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 12:22:54 PM UTC-6, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > For those who might have forgotten, today is the 82nd anniversary of the    
   > attack on Pearl Harbor. As is their custom, the History Channel is running    
   > a series of documentaries about the attack which I have recorded. I just    
   > finished watching the first one which examines a conspiracy theory that    
   > FDR knew the attack on Pearl was coming and allowed it to happen to gain    
   > public support for the US entering WWII. The program started off by raising    
   > that question without actually stating that to be the case.    
   >    
   > The main thrust of the program was that Admiral Kimmel and General Short    
   > were made the scapegoats for a series of miscommunications and outright    
   > blunders the prevented the two commanders from being prepared for an    
   > attack. That much I believe and that is widely accepted. One thing I learned    
   > was that immediately following the attack. FDR appointed a commission to    
   > investigate what went wrong, headed by Chief Justice Stone. Sound familiar?    
   > The commission found both Kimmel and Short had been derelict in their    
   > duty and both were relieved of their commands.    
   >    
   > The rest of the program was spent detailing the miscommunications and    
   > blunders that took place leading up to the tragic attack and how it could    
   > have been prevented had the commanders in Hawaii been made aware of    
   > the intelligence prior to the attack. The program was first aired in 2016   
   and    
   > almost none of it was new information. It was all covered in the 1970 movie    
   > Tora, Tora, Tora.    
   >    
   > In the end, the documentary came clean and acknowledged that there is no    
   > evidence than FDR nor anyone else knew an attack on Pearl Harbor was    
   > imminent, that it is all speculation. We knew they were going to attack us    
   > somewhere but the belief was that they would strike somewhere in the western   
   Pacific, possibly the Phillipines or Guam. It noted that the US    
   > Senate passed a resolution absolving Kimmel of blame for the attack but    
   > that no US President has issued an order exonerating Kimmel and restoring    
   > his four star rank. It ended with a curious quote from then Vice-President    
   > Joe Biden stating that the treatment of Kimmel was the greatest injustice in    
   > American military history. I have been able to find nothing to indicate that    
   > during his time as President, Biden has done anything to remedy that   
   injustice.   
      
   No question Kimmel was scapegoated for our general unpreparedness and   
   arrogance that those "little yellow people" couldn't and wouldn't ever pull   
   off such a strike.  Someone should put their money where their mouth is and   
   officially exonerate him.   
      
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