Recently, a question was asked: “Do you really believe what you are saying or do you think FDR and Bush were begging and pleading for Japan and Bin Laden to attack us so we could enter a war? Seriously?”
On the question of Japan, undoubtedly FDR was courting an attack as justification for entering the War in Europa. Anyone who has read the history of the build up to World War II knows that FDR was looking for a way to get the American people on a war footing. Embargoes are a mother!
As for bin Laden. BushCo were strangely oblivious of bin Laden prior to 9-11. I do not put it past the Gov’t and especially one guided by the likes of Cheney and Rummy to allow an attack to occur so as to “lead” the nation to war.
Why did we NEED to go to Iraq? The answer is that we DID NOT. Yet, 9-11 and the GWOT were used as an excuse to take us into that war. They definitely “shaded the truth” to get the war that they wanted.
The Spanish American War was yet another contrived war as was the Mexican War and the Vietnam War. When one looks at the Korean War, it is a war into which we either secretly goaded North Korea or into which Truman simply blundered like a blind fool.
American spheres of influence were stated loudly to the World. South Korea lay JUUUUUUUSSSSSST outside of the line. Leading NK, China and the USSR to believe that we’d stand by and do nothing.
From the internet:
The Korean war, as many American leader later said, seem to justify America’s global crusade against Soviet communism. It convinced many Americans of the truth of the United States governments warning that the Soviet were plotting to take over the world and impose communist domination over the free world. The Korean war would further justify American creation of the “nuclear umbrella” to shield the free world from Soviet expansion. As described by Secretary of State Dean Acheson in 1949, the nuclear umbrella was the American threat to wage nuclear war against the Soviet Union if the communists threatened any country in the free world. An attack on any member of the free world, thus, would be treated as an attack against the United States, which would lead America to wage nuclear war against the aggressor.
As well as the following:
Do I think that a US President and/or the US Political and Military Leadership are capable of allowing an attack or incident to happen so as to lead us into war? Definitely. It’s been done several times.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
REMEMBER THE MAINE!
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!
9-11! NEVER AGAIN!
THE LUSITAINE!
FORT SUMTER! (As Lincoln stated; “The North must not be seen as the aggressor.)
The Tonkin Gulf Incident
Leaving the Koreas outside of our “sphere of influence.”
What did Madame Ambassador say to Saddam Hussein when he asked how the US would view aggression against Kuwait?
Known faulty intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in ’03.
The War of 1812 and lust for Canada.
Hawaii, the US Marines and Dole Fruit
Gautamala and United Fruit
Nicaragua/Panama ~ We needed a Canal passage.
Pinochet ~ Nixon and Henry Kissinger
Nixon, Cambodia and Laos