Both parties have led the American people into unjustified,or preventable wars,for no other reason than their own self-serving goals of wealth,and consolidation of power.
Sixty five years ago today,an unwilling America was dragged into war,it wanted no part of.A war that did not serve its own best interests,and led to some of the worst racial persecution in American history.
War in The Pacific,could have been prevented.There was no surprise.No sneak attack.It was all known in advance.As far back as 1932,the navy was conducting drills,to test the safety of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.The results of these drills were clear.The US fleet at Pearl Harbor,were sitting ducks for an enemy attack by air.
As we saw with Iraq,there was a plan drawn up in advance for war in the Pacific.In 1995,a box of documents was found,at the naval archives,in College Park,Maryland.These documents were written in 1940,and detailed a seven point plan for provoking a war with Japan.These points were called "actions",and were written by Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum.Sixty six years later,they bear an eerie resemblance to what PNAC would write about Iraq:
In the ONI's analysis, the U.S. would eventually be at war with the Axis powers. For various reasons, it would be best if we went to war while England was undefeated. Part 6 of the proposal weighed Japan's assets and liabilities. Japan had a highly centralized and capable government, along with strong army and navy. On the other hand, Japan was already involved in an "exhausting" war with China. Japan lacked sources for raw materials and was dependent upon "distant overseas routes" for essential supplies. Lastly, Japan's cities and industrial centers were "extremely vulnerable to air attack." All in all, it appeared the U.S. had the upper hand in the Pacific. Part 9 addressed the primary obstacle to war, the domestic situation:
It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado...
There follows a short list of steps to generate more ado. They include agreements with Britain and Holland for the use of bases, resources, and cooperation with an embargo of all trade (Actions A, B, and H); movement of some long-range heavy cruisers and submarines "to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore" (Actions D and E); and maintenance of "the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands" (Action F). "If by these means," item 10 observes, "Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better."
Action D very nearly brought war in July of 1941. With U.S. warships stationed near Japan, Roosevelt authorized what he called "pop-up" cruises --- sporadic forays into Japanese territorial waters. The purpose was to draw fire and thus begin the war. Japan protested to U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew but fired no shots. It would take all eight of McCollum's proposals to force Japan's hand.
In the 14 months following McCollum's memorandum, the elements of his plan fell into place.
As with Iraq,top admirals,especially Pacific fleet commander James Richardson,were warning FDR about the vulnerabilty of The Pacific Fleet.Richardson felt so strongly about this,he openly disobeyed orders,twice and had the fleet moved.For caring more about the men,and the ships placed under his command,than an imperialist agenda of provoking war, Richardson was fired by FDR.
Richardson's successor,Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel,was selected because he was considered a good toady who would follow orders without question.Kimmel knew about the dangers the fleet was in,but wasn't concerned at all.
While all this was going on,Navy cryptographers were busy cracking the Japanese code.
The Japanese Fleet's Cryptographic System, a.k.a. 5 number code (Sample). JN stands for Japanese Navy, introduced 1 June 1939. This was a very simple old-type code book system used by the American Army and Navy in 1898 and abandoned in 1917 because it was insecure. Version A has a dictionary of 5,600 numbers, words and phrases, each given as a five figure number. These were super-enciphered by addition to random numbers contained in a second code book. The dictionary was only changed once before PH on Dec 1, 1940, to a slightly larger version B but the random book was changed every 3 to 6 months- last on Aug 1. The Japanese blundered away the code when they introduced JN25-B by continuing to use, for 2 months, random books that had been previously solved by the Allies. That was the equivalent of handing over the JN-25B codebook. It was child's play for the Navy group OP-20-G (738 men whose primary responsibility was Japanese naval codes) to reconstruct the exposed dictionary. We recovered the whole thing immediately - in 1994 the NSA published that JN-25B was completely cracked in December 1940. In January 1941 the US gave Britain two JN-25B code books with keys and techniques for deciphering. The entire Pearl Harbor scheme was laid out in this code. The official US Navy statement on JN-25B is the NAVAL SECURITY GROUP HISTORY TO WORLD WAR II prepared by Captain J. Holtwick in June 1971, page 398: "By 1 December 1941 we had the code solved to a readable extent." Churchill wrote "From the end of 1940 the Americans had pierced the vital Japanese ciphers, and were decoding large numbers of their military and diplomatic telegrams."(GRAND ALLIANCE p 598) Chief of Navy codebreaking Safford reported that during 1941 "The Navy COMINT team did a thorough job on the Japanese Navy with no help from the Army."(SRH-149) The first paragraph of the Congressional Report Exhibit 151 says the US was "currently" (instantly) reading JN-25B and exchanging the "translations" with the British prior to Pearl Harbor.
By the beginning of 1941,there were regular warnings of the attack.At least sixteen of them,specifically citing Pearl Harbor.Warnings from Britain,warnings from Russia,warnings from Mexico and Peru.All were ignored.All the while,every movement of the Japanese Navy was being tracked,with word being fed back to FDR.
Ignored to scare Americans out of their "isolationism" and pacifism.Ignored to drag America into Wall Street's war in Europe.The pacific fleet was sacrificed to provoke Germany to declare war on the US,and was every bit as staged as 9/11,and as fabricated as the "attacks"on The Maine,andThe Gulf of Tonkin Incident.Those of us who are truly pacifists,and who believe Imperialist hegemony goes against every principle this country was supposedly founded upon,will probably never succeed in abolishing warfare.Abolishing the state might be good,but it would only be a temporary solution.I think a big step in this direction,would be to somehow get all corporate interests out of the government.If we could somehow remove all the profit motives for war,and this includes the war on the US government is waging against its own people,in the name of fighting "terror",we would probably end up with the freer,and safer world that the proponents of war claim it brings.
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