Paelocon whack job Justin Raimondo is known for jumping off the deep end. Dennis (his real name) once wrote an article claiming how better off the world would be with Japan winning WWII . Now he puts on his pseudo-history expertise and claims FDR knew that Japan was going to attack pearl harbor, but let it happened.
The truth is that, by the winter of 1941, the Americans had decrypted the various Japanese military and diplomatic codes: President Roosevelt, key members of his cabinet, and top military leaders, including Gen. George C. Marshall, US Army chief of staff, had access to this intelligence, which was intercepted, decoded, and transmitted directly to them. We know this because Robert Stinnett, in researching his seminal book, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, obtained heretofore unknown documents under the Freedom of Information Act, which trace the intelligence stream from interception stations throughout the Pacific to the 36 Americans cleared to look through what was, in effect, a window into Japanese plans and preparations for the Pearl Harbor attack. The President and 35 other Americans in top political and military circles knew where the attack was to take place, they knew when it was to take place, and they watched it unfold, step by step, with full knowledge of its import.
It is widely remarked that even on the eve of Pearl Harbor, the vast majority of the American people stubbornly resisted efforts to drag us into the European war. The Court Historians responsible for constructing the FDR cult would have had great difficulty denying the pattern of presidential prevarication that had us effectively fighting the Axis powers long before war was officially declared. So instead of taking on this impossible task, which would have been laughed out of court, they openly valorized him for his expertise at the art of deception. Thomas Bailey, who taught history at Stanford University for 40 years and authored The American Pageant, long a standard US history textbook, extolled the liar and his lie in his 1948 book, The Man in the Street: The Impact of American Public Opinion on Foreign Policy:
“Franklin Roosevelt repeatedly deceived the American people during the period before Pearl Harbor. He was like the physician who must tell the patient lies for the patient’s own good…. Because the masses are notoriously shortsighted and generally cannot see danger until it is at their throats, our statesmen are forced to deceive them into an awareness of their own long-run interests.”
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Of course it hasn’t, and for a very good reason: the myth of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor is a pillar of the “Greatest Generation” narrative that is the foundation of our interventionist foreign policy. That storyline goes something like this: we “saved” the world from the Axis powers, overcoming our “isolationist” inclinations, and went on to create a “world order” in which we established, forevermore, our duty and destiny to police the four corners of the earth and stand up for Goodness, Justice, and Fair Play. Now that we know how FDR lied us into that war, however, the picture becomes a bit more complicated – and certainly less favorable to an American president described by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as a man who “never told the truth where a lie would suffice.”
Justin (Dennis) Raimondo is a delusional fool. Luckily he has no clout and is in the same category as Charles Johnson. I bet Raimondo thinks 9/11 was an inside job.
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Raimondo does think that 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by (surprise, surprise) the Mossad!
A lot of the Paleocons (and Buchananites) and Ronulans claim that FDR connived in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I’d like to shove that cancer stick up Dennis’s bunghole!
Dennis Raimondo
In that photo with his cigarette dangling, Dennis looks like(or is trying to emulate) Yves Montand.
Folks in DC Town were expecting the Japanese to attack the US somewhere. The smart money was betting on the Philippines. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I think they may have had an idea an moved the aircraft carriers as a precaution
Speranza wrote:
Please say he isn’t what I think he is….
@ brookly red:
I think that was just some good luck on our part.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
perhaps, but considering they were the prime targets it was either very good luck or a very good precaution… or they may even have moved them to be in a position to respond to an attack on the Philippines. Who knows.
this guy was one of my profs at Pitt in my graduate program. he contends that we knew that an attack would happen somewhere, we didnt know where or when. i’ll trust the expert on the subject over some punk in a wife beater.
Pardon me, but who is this person, and why does anybody care what he has to say about anything? Never heard of him before, and I doubt I’ll ever hear of him again. Where do you find these people, at the local Nutz-R-Us store?
Mike C. wrote:
I was wondering the same thing.
Mike C. wrote:
Has to be from the discount bin…
@ Mike C.:
I think he’s the antiwar.co m dude. I certainly don’t care what he has to say but sometimes it is funny to watch the monkeys fling poo at the zoo, lol.
Or something
@ mskelly:
Never heard of the site, either. If I want to watch idiots, it’s only 75 miles from here to the US Capitol building…
Macker wrote:
He is (not that there is anything wrong with it).
@ mskelly:
It’s kind of like reality television.
He’s a senior fellow at his own institute honoring one Randolph Bourne.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
You know its selling for a discount because a corner of the frontal lobe has been clipped.
/old vinyl album joke
unclassifiable wrote:
I still have some of those discounted albums in my collection. Those were the good old days, back when a Record Store still sold real records.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
my dear cousin and her hubby went deep into Melody Records in Detroit…they owned a bunch of stores…anyway they had over 20k vinyl records…all stacked up in perfect order in the basement….just walk up and pick out ant record ever made, or nearly so
Famous actress advocates killing NRA members as a form of social evolution. Made her Movie bones glorifying violence herself.
@ darkwords:
Well, that’s disappointing.
@ darkwords:
Social evolution will occur when those folks try to kill anyone who belongs to an organization whose members actually train in armed self-defense.
/first rule of holes Hollyweird types. When you are in one, stop digging.
darkwords wrote:
I never heard of her.
Speranza wrote:
You’ve never seen CSI?
lobo91 wrote:
What’s CSI?
/galt
@ darkwords:
I guess the meaning of “famous” has changed. I never heard of her either. Hola de Nicaragua, Rodan!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Quick drive-by comment:
Yep. That’s it. They knew something was coming down, but they didn’t know the details (just like 911).
Everyone knew Japan was expanding its empire because they couldn’t hide it. Although the Allies were reading radio traffic, they hadn’t broken the codes. By the time of Midway, Purple was broken, and that’s what won the war in the Pacific. Without the codebreakers the Allies would have lost WWII (which was merely an extension of WWI).
Then there is the controversy about FDR’s “Tethered Goats.”
@ coldwarrior:
Ditto.
@ unclassifiable:
Got it. Got most of my albums that way. $1 for a $6 LP was a deal.
@ lobo91:
You know, I have seen one or two episodes of CSI, when I’ve been unfortunate enough to be stuck in the same room as a TV playing it. But I can honestly say that I don’t know the names of any of the “stars” and probably wouldn’t recognize them if I ran over one with the good ol’ Suburban. Just faces in a crowd to me.
And, no, to forestall any bleats, I’m not planning to run any of those clowns over, but some of them, at least, appear to be dumb enough to try to play in traffic.
lobo91 wrote:
One episode of CSI Miami. With NCIS, NCIS-LA, Criminal Minds, I can only watch so many crime shows.
Justin Raimondo is a well-known 911 Truther and one of the first to espouse the “inside job” theory. I met him once at a meeting of the John Randolph Society. He is an associate of Pat Buchanan and Lew Rockwell, a “paleoconservative” and quite delusional. His crowd believes that every conflict in American history was an orchestrated plot to take over the world, that the USA is evil. Their foreign policy positions are very similar to those of the far left. Further, Raimondo is a gay pagan and used to run a website called antiwar.com, which was praised and linked to by Michael Moore.
Raimondo’s star has faded in recent years, so it is not surprising if you’ve never heard of him.
Stogie wrote:
He once was a leftist and made the easy transition to paleoconism. The thing he has in common with them -- he hates Jews and does not think much about the United States either.
@ Speranza:Yes, there is an antisemitic thread that runs through paleo themes. They seem to sympathize with the Axis powers and are very hostile to Israel.
@ Bunk X:
P.S. I’ve got a yellowed paperback copy of David Kahn’s “The Code Breakers” if anyone wants it. It’s an abridged version, but is excellent reading. The full volume goes into more detail and has been updated a few times. (I have two different editions hardbound.)
@ Speranza:He seems to like the dangling cigarette pose. He had an earlier one some years back.
Accountability Review Board Report (ARB) on Benghazi (pdf)
@ Speranza:
I tweeted her sorry ass several times today. Super Skank Sandra Bernhard sent out a tweet begging oh Mighty Obama to ban automatic weapons, I informed the moron she might want to Google “1934 Firearms Control Act” and then perhaps consider an education.
@ Carolina Girl:
It has to really suck to be famous for being fugly.
Might have asked to to consider an education. Or perhaps putting a bag over her head to Keep America Beautiful. I forget.
@ Carolina Girl:
I’m not aware of a single person who’s been killed with a legally-owned automatic weapon in the US in the past 50 years.
@ mskelly:
I’m not even through it but I’m betting that will need an edit to Non-Accountability Review Board Report (ARB) on Benghazi.
Apparently, Our Lady of the Concussion never went to a doctor or was treated. Has she even been diagnosed officially. Or did she just send a lackey to Walgreen’s for a “Home Concussion Diagnosis Kit”?
God bless Stephen Hunter’s heart but pigs just like to wallow in their own feces.
@ mskelly:
Start with a quote from Santayana and then lay down the most incessant line of lies since the last White House press conference (or
anyall of them for that matter).@ 29 Alberta Oil Peon: I remember her as the prostitute in China Beach.
The medical show about doctors and nurses in Vietnam.
darkwords wrote:
Kim Delaney was in that show, right?
Speranza wrote:
Dana Delaney was in it.
@ mskelly: local security elements fled and would not help.
New OOT upstairs about a five-legged woman and a three-legged man.
@ 51 lobo91: Correction. The Hot Dana Delaney was in it.
This Raimondo critter was a pretty big name in the blogosphere
right after 9-11…he was the one of the original “troofers” and used to get slagged all the time in LGF back when it was sane. Now the Chuckster probably agrees with him.
Speranza wrote:
Yeah, the Jews did it, because Muslims are poor innocent exploited colonized indigenous brown-skinned sun-people incapable of military aggression.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!