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Ah, I see you have a view that pretty much all Americans do. A few quick, barely known facts about WW2...
Tojo wouldn't have been in power without FDR's help.
Admiral Kimmel, the commander at Pearl Harbor, had been receiving attack alerts from the government for over a year and a half, so when the real one came, he had no more reason to believe it than the last several--this is distinctly reminiscent of 'the boy who cried wolf'. Also, all of Kimmel's modern battleships (the ones that could fend off the Japanese planes easily) were sent away just a day or so before the attack--under FDR's order. And here's something that's very interesting--a few days before Pearl Harbor, General George Marshal, in a closed-door session with reporters, told them that the attack was about to happen, but they weren't to release the information, or they would be compromising the security of the nation.
more coming...