American Warships Sink in Hawaii
by Alex Ragen
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (CNN)?December 7, 1941?U.S. Navy officials reported earlier today that a number of its warships in the American colony of Pearl Harbor were suddenly discovered sinking. Unnamed sources blamed the incident on a nearby training exercise conducted by the Japanese Air Force.
In Tokyo, Japanese officials acknowledged some civilian fishing boats in the area, but denied any unusual activity. They repeated their commitment to the peace process and said that any violence was the direct result of continued American aggression. They emphasized that only peaceful negotiations based on a U.S. acceptance of Japan's leading role in Asia could reduce tensions between the countries.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, leader of the hard-line Democratic Party, accused the Japanese Air Force of a deliberate "sneak attack" on the American fleet. Thousands of American sailors had been killed on what he provocatively called "a day that will live in infamy."
There was no independent confirmation of the president's figures, which respected Japanese sources say are greatly exaggerated. Sources in Prime Minister Tojo's office have hinted that the sinking of the American warships was self-inflicted sabotage intended to put the Japanese government in an unfavorable light.
The belligerent tone of the right-wing American President's remarks leads many Japanese to consider him a war criminal.
The Pacific region has been a flash point since U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's "opening" of Japan in 1853, which many Japanese still consider to a defilement of Japanese soil by a "red-haired barbarian."
The United States has, since its unilateral annexation of Hawaii in 1898, built hundreds of illegal settlements on the islands, in the process displacing and killing the indigenous peoples.
A number of American groups protesting the U.S. government's policies, including the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts, called for a "days of rage" protest in Washington.
by Alex Ragen
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (CNN)?December 7, 1941?U.S. Navy officials reported earlier today that a number of its warships in the American colony of Pearl Harbor were suddenly discovered sinking. Unnamed sources blamed the incident on a nearby training exercise conducted by the Japanese Air Force.
In Tokyo, Japanese officials acknowledged some civilian fishing boats in the area, but denied any unusual activity. They repeated their commitment to the peace process and said that any violence was the direct result of continued American aggression. They emphasized that only peaceful negotiations based on a U.S. acceptance of Japan's leading role in Asia could reduce tensions between the countries.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, leader of the hard-line Democratic Party, accused the Japanese Air Force of a deliberate "sneak attack" on the American fleet. Thousands of American sailors had been killed on what he provocatively called "a day that will live in infamy."
There was no independent confirmation of the president's figures, which respected Japanese sources say are greatly exaggerated. Sources in Prime Minister Tojo's office have hinted that the sinking of the American warships was self-inflicted sabotage intended to put the Japanese government in an unfavorable light.
The belligerent tone of the right-wing American President's remarks leads many Japanese to consider him a war criminal.
The Pacific region has been a flash point since U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's "opening" of Japan in 1853, which many Japanese still consider to a defilement of Japanese soil by a "red-haired barbarian."
The United States has, since its unilateral annexation of Hawaii in 1898, built hundreds of illegal settlements on the islands, in the process displacing and killing the indigenous peoples.
A number of American groups protesting the U.S. government's policies, including the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts, called for a "days of rage" protest in Washington.
i was like wtf... they marched around with the star of david beside a swatztika of course, and ignored the problem of suicide bombers.. stupid fundamentalists.
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