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From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: AWACS and Pearl Harbour.
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Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 15:13:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 15:13:47 1986
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You guys have it all wrong.  Roosevelt knew the Japanese were about to
attack, and let it happen by surprise so we'd take a serious defeat in
the first attack.  The US might not get behind getting into the war if
we weren't seriously provoked, and  an unsuccessful or  only partially
successful attack on Pearl Harbor might not do it.

My informants tell me he was  fairly satisfied with  the result.  Note
that he and the navy top brass made sure the carriers were out of town
when the shit hit the fan - it's not like he was expecting to give the
whole store away.

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