The Imperial Japanese fleet launched an air raid on the United States Navy and Army bases on Oahu in Hawaii. Severe damage was done to the fleet, caught at anchor, and we suffered heavy causalities, with over 1000 men killed when the USS Arizona exploded after a Japanese bomb penetrated the deck and detonated in her magazine.
The next day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went to a joint session of Congress and requested a declaration that a state of war had existed since the first shot was fired by the Japanese. Here is his speech.
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Compare that speech with the crap spoken by that Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure, Barack Hussein Obama last night.
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~The Angry Webmaster~
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FDR was a real piece of work in many ways… and to all appearances believed just as much (or more) in communism as the current community-organizer-in-chief. Then again, he had the excuse that it hadn’t been TOTALLY and OBVIOUSLY disproven just yet. And at least he had the guts to DO something. What he did was often wrong, but at least he did something (other than play golf, of course).
No question that FDR and his court really screwed over the country. As a war president, he got the job done. (Although I would have let the Soviets starve myself)
It’s a good thing he died when he did. His imperial majesty fully intended to really screw up the economy after the war.