Pearl Harbor attack

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The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was the incident which brought the United States into World War II.

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Despite the official story that the attack came as a complete surprise, there appears to be a strong historical case that top US officials:

• knew of the impending attack
• had antagonized the Japanese with the idea of encouraging them to attack
• ordered the fleet at Pearl Harbor into a configuration which would be the most heavily damaged by an air attack
• kept officers at Pearl Harbor in the dark about the latest intelligence, and generally out of the loop

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• The 2001-09-11 attacks have been compared to the Pearl Harbor attack.
• The Project for the New American Century implicitly called for a "new Pearl Harbor" to help crystallize American sentiment in directions considered appropriate by the authors

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• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch: no article as of 2007-12-25

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• 2007-12-07 /S/D/ Conspiracy is an Absolute Fact “Numerous other examples exist, and they point in one direction: conspiracy is a fact, not a theory. U.S. leaders (elected and not) have track records which we would be fools to simply ignore. .. These numerous exposed conspiracies are not the product of delusional mental patients -- although this image is promoted by those who have a vested interest in hiding the facts. These crimes are very real, always covered up, and numerous false "theories" accompany them in order to cloud the waters and to confuse the public. .. Another trait common to high level conspiracies is that they are never prosecuted. The American public has been unable to demand justice and to get it. The media's denial of the existence of the crime -- at all -- in conjunction with its repeated ridicule of skeptics, tends to suppress the legitimate public outrage, and to marginalize dissent. .. In other words, the liars are winning.”
• 2001-06-04 /S/D/ Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction by James Perloff: a pre-9/11 argument that the attack on Pearl Harbor was more or less arranged by the US government. “...comprehensive research has not only shown Washington knew in advance of the attack, but deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the “surprise” attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: “Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war.””