Reply #19: Read "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett about Pearl Harbor....

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...if you really believe that deceit to get Americans to buy into going to war is not SOP. Stinnett discovered the fact that the U. S. had broken the Japanese Naval codes in 1940, thereby allowing the U. S. military to know exactly what the Japanese Navy was doing prior to Pearl Harbor, and exactly where they were going. His book also details the McCollum 8-Point Memo, a documant adopted by FDR that detailed how to provoke Japan into attacking U. S. military assets. FDR needed the Japanese to attack U. S. military assets so that U. S. public opinion would be overwhelmingly stampeded toward support for entering WWII. In light of this event, the PNACers written comment in the document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" that Americans would need "another Pearl Harbor" to support going to war in the Middle East is particularly chilling, IMHO.

Also, do some research on the sinking of the Lusitania, an event that contributed to America entering WWI. The Germans seemed to know exactly where the Lusitania would be steaming, and she took no evasive (zig-zag course) action to make it much more difficult for a German submarine to hit her with torpedoes. Recent research also indicates that the Lusitania was carrying war materials, a clear violation of her status as a noncombatant.

And finally, do a little digging into the sinking of the USS Maine, an event that led to the U. S. going to war against Spain in 1898. It is very difficult to believe that a mine attached to the OUTSIDE of a ship's hull will create a hole in the hull clearly blown from the inside out.

By the way, do you remember the "babies pulled from incubators and left to die" story that was presented to Congress prior to the U. S. attacking Iraq the first time? Did you know that the young woman was the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat, was never a nurse as was claimed, and never saw the events she described?

And now we come to the most recent collection of "reasons" produced by the NeoCons for the sole purpose of illegally invading and occupying Iraq. If it looks like SOP, walks like SOP, and talks like SOP, it is pretty apparent to me that it's SOP.