Sunday, December 07, 2008
Revising Pearl Harbor
Accidentally listened to Unhanged Traitor R F Kennedy Jr's radio program just now. Unhanged Traitor Kennedy Jr is sympathizing with the Japs, talking about their superior morality which made them hesitant to make war on America in 1941. Unhanged Traitor Kennedy Jr said that the Jap military didn't really consider kamikaze attacks until well after Pearl Harbor, as a measure of desperation.
Like everything else said by Dangerous Lunatic R F Kennedy Jr, this is wrong. Factually wrong, logically wrong, treasonously wrong.
In fact the Japs were not only CONSIDERING, they were RECRUITING kamikaze pilots in 1935, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, SIX YEARS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR.
We knew this at the time, though we didn't know when or where the Japs were going to hit us. As Polistra mentioned before, NBC commentator Edwin Hill reported on this knowledge, quoting Congressional testimony from aviation pioneer Clyde Pangborn:
Like everything else said by Dangerous Lunatic R F Kennedy Jr, this is wrong. Factually wrong, logically wrong, treasonously wrong.
In fact the Japs were not only CONSIDERING, they were RECRUITING kamikaze pilots in 1935, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, SIX YEARS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR.
We knew this at the time, though we didn't know when or where the Japs were going to hit us. As Polistra mentioned before, NBC commentator Edwin Hill reported on this knowledge, quoting Congressional testimony from aviation pioneer Clyde Pangborn:
America is threatened by only one enemy, and that enemy is Japan. Japan has perfected man-operated aerial torpedoes in which the plane and the bomb are one, an instrument deadlier than any known weapon. Certain to bring death to the operator, yet thousands of Japanese have already volunteered for the honor of dying as pilots of these infernal modern weapons.¶ 7:39 PM
