| jezze_jamez said: The Japanese went wayyyy out of their way to attack Pearl Harbour. It was totally warrented |
Yeah but apprently the US president and his advisors let them do it. You have to remember that at that time Roosevelt was despretaly trying to convince the people that America needed to enter the war, but was opposed by a strong isolationist lobby led among others by Lindbergh, and the majority of Americans didn't care about what was happening in Europe and wanted the US to stay out of this mess.
It is now known that British and Australians had decyphered the JN-25 (japanese navy encrypting code), and were informed of the plan the Japanese had to attack an american base in the Pacific. They even knew one week prior the attack, that a Japanese fleet had left the Kouril Islands in a mission to strike Pearl Harbour. Chruchill who was also informed probably passed the world to Roosevelt. The attack arrived just at the right time to change the mind of the American people.
