Hey Excelers...
I've got something for us to talk about.
As we enter the exciting world of World War II, there are some questions that seem to stand out to me. We threw around the thought that FDR might have known about Pearl Harbor before it happened. It is possible that he was waiting for something like this to happen for America to enter the World War. Before the date of December 7th, 1941 FDR had meetings with other Allied leaders and America was assisting them with war supplies.
We also talked about the similarities and differences to Pearl Harbor and September 11th. I have heard rumors that President Bush first found out about September 11th sometime in August. This is a similarity to Pearl Harbor, because maybe he was looking for a reason to start a war or terror. Do you think that there are other similarites and differences that maybe we missed in class? Let me know that your thinking....~Alyssa
Editor's note: President Bush received a Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001 entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S." while at the Crawford ranch. He was briefed that Osama wanted to strike somewhere inside America but nothing specific was given. Bin Ladin has attempted to strike the U.S. in response to our missile attacks on his Afghani bases in 1998 (which were retaliatory strikes for two bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania). The foiled millenium bombing plot was Bin Ladin's first major attempt to strike inside the U.S.
Here's a link to the declassified PDB from 8-6-01. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.pdf
Hopefully this will dispell any rumors.
"After a hard day's work diggin' up the sod, we're ready for chow."
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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I do agree that FDR could have known about that attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened, but i dont think he did not do anything on purpose. I think that he just didnt think that a country like Japan could pull off something so huge! letting this be an excuse to get your country into a war is ridiculous! what president would want his troops to be brutally attacked and want to send them into war to have even more killed?!?! i just cant seem to wrap my head around it i guess!
much love,
dayna
I think that FDR knew that something would happen. he wanted to get into the war but wanted to wait until he had a reason. President Bush had reasons to think that Bin Laden would do something to harm the U.S. Tapes have been found of Bin Laden talking about a massive attack on the U.S.
-Maggie
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