what percentage of americans believe that the attack on pearl harbor was a conspiracy ?
912508
Well, if enough idiots start posting this latest conspiracy theory on Yahoo Answers, all the young people who frequent this place will eventually start to believe that World War 2 never happened.\n\nWe've seen this already with the Moon landing "hoax" theory, and 9/11 conspiracy, so I'm sure it's just around the corner for these mental midgets.
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The US had previously declined to be involved in WW II.  Pearl Harbor forced the US to take a stand and become involved.  Also, it helped develop a cause for the US and also developed a sense of American National spirit.  Remember Pearl Harbor became the motto for a lot of American Sailors and soldiers.
305702
The same crazies who say that the U.S. government was behind 9&#92;11.....lots of them.
571940
If you read history, our own and almost every government since Roman times has done what are called "false flag terror attacks".  It wouldn't be any kind of stretch to see 9/11 in the same light as Pearl Harbor (which we intentionally "let happen"), the sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba, the now very debunked "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.  Internationally, these operations have been par for the course in our dirty foreign policies for the last 100 years.\n\nPretty much every major war for the last 100+ years in the US has been started over a proven lie or "manipulation" to garner public support, why should 9/11 be any different?
1086103
The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
643603
They were indeed both on American soil. They were also both unexpected by the American people and were unprepared for.They were both very devastating to America as a whole.\n\nLet's state the obvious difference. Pearl Harbor was an attack on our military... an obvious well planned out strategic attack done to begin a war that was already brewing...done in a military fashion pinpointing a miliatary target.\n\n9/11? Cowards attacking innocent American civilians in a terroristic manner. A bunch of mongrels(if I may) strategically for an extended period of time planning out how to kill innocent Americans who had(for the most part) no military links.\n\nSomeone should pay the debt of those lost loved ones...however I do believe the U.S government has lost it's focus...
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Pearl Harbor \nPearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --\nOverview and Special Image Selection\nThe 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.\n\nEighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.\n\nBy late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.\n\nThe U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.\n\nThese great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered.\n\nHowever, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.\n\nhiroshima and nagasaki:\nSome of the most frequent queries concerning the atomic bombs are those dealing with the selection of the targets and the decision as to when the bombs would be used. \n\nThe approximate date for the first use of the bomb was set in the fall of 1942 after the Army had taken over the direction of and responsibility for the atomic bomb project. At that time, under the scientific assumptions which turned out to be correct, the summer of 1945 was named as the most likely date when sufficient production would have been achieved to make it possible actually to construct and utilize an atomic bomb. It was essential before this time to develop the technique of constructing and detonating the bomb and to make an almost infinite number of scientific and engineering developments and tests. Between the fall of 1942 and June 1945, the estimated probabilities of success had risen from about 60% to above 90%; however, not until July 16, 1945, when the first full-scale test took place in New Mexico, was it conclusively prove
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I think conspiracy theorists have been thoroughly discredited.  The terrorist attack was just that: an attack by terrorists.\n\nWe can discuss the root cause of their discontent, but it will not change the facts.
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If the US government answered all of the NUMEROUS conspiracy theories and the ravings of the theorists, nothing would change.  remember the whole Kennedy Assassination thing.  There is NO credible evidence that a conspiracy took place.  Some use that as evidence of the conspiracy.  \n\nSame here.  you will never get the crazies to go away.  I watched you video.  I question much of it.  We already have all agreed that many of the indicators were there and not responded to, everyone has already agreed that several people have dropped the ball and allowed a possibly preventable incident to occur.  That people were criminally negligent does not make a conspiracy.  That someone in a think tank refers to the catastrophy of Pearl Harbor  doesn't mean that they are intending to reenact it.  \n\nThis is much like the Da Vinci Code....   A great story built on random facts, conjecture and fantasy.\n\nIs our inablility to perceive the organiztion, hatred, psychoses, and determination of the scum that did this the sign of our complicity of our ineptitude.\n\n The truth is not always out there.  Sometimes it is what it seems to be, and other times.... we may never know.
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Only an idiot would believe that it wasn't shot down! Only those who do not follow the news would beleive its a conspiracy theory when it is already documented fact That America did shoot down Flight 93. Why can't you people believe that what you consider a conspiracy theory may actually be the conpiracy truth?\n\n Amyone who says it is a stupid question are in fact showing their own ignorance and the fact that they ar part of the ignorant sheeple that follow every order given by the government. After all the government are people just like you next door neighbor, and if you can believe your neighbor is capable of committing a crime then why arn't government people able to since they are simply people like you and me?\n\n After all, the Bush cabal is the most corrupt government in history. More people in this administration have been charged and convicted than any administration and several more charged today on 4-07-06. Today it was also mentioned in the  news that it was George Bush who leaked the secret agent Valeri Plames name and exposed her causing the death of thousands of Amreican agents. That is a crime and is punishable in America as treason against America. This should kick off a viceous battle to impeach this treasonous man and have him convicted in court for treason against America and spend the rest of his life in Jail or be executed such as many others have been in the past.This man is dangerous and a traitor to the United States of America\n\nWhy do you think that last week he (BUSH)  visited  Mexixo's President Vincenti Fox and one week after Bush's return America was invaded by millions of Mexicans. Could President Fox be helping Bush to divert attention away from his impeachable crime of exposeing CIA names by directing millions of Mexicans to converge upon America thusly causeing turmoil and allowing Bush to implimet the greater parts of the Patriot Act and in the name of national security, lock down the US, open detention camps, and suspend the constitution and also suspend the comming elections thusly making BUSH the dictator for many , many years to come? This is all in the New Patriot Act and can and will be done if we Americans allow him to do it. This whole Mexican charade is a set up in order to impliment the police state in order to make BUSH the dictator of America. It happened once and it can happen again! \n  \nAnd for those of you who believe questioning the offical story of flight 93 is somehow an insult to the families,you could never be more wrong. First it is an insult to the families to not want to know the truth. Second, even the families don't believe the official story so who are you to speak for the famlies desire to know the truth? Why do you blatantly beleive what the government tells you without desiring to know the whole truth? Ahhhhh too many sheep in the world, so blind, so ignorant, so easily fooled. No wonder our government can get away with anything before our very eyes. The dumbing down of Amreica has been a success when the people of America refuse to question the governments offical story when it is shakey at least,\n\n  Doanld Rumsfield hinself mentioned on national TV that America did in fact shoot down flight 93\n\n"Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane 'shot down' in Pennsylvania "\n\n  "WASHINGTON – Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been questions about Flight 93, the ill-fated plane that crashed in the rural fields of Pennsylvania. \n\nThe official story has been that passengers on the United Airlines flight rushed the hijackers in an effort to prevent them from crashing the plane into a strategic target – possibly the U.S. Capitol. \n\nDuring his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld referred to the flight being shot down – "\nhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42112\n\n\n   FLIGHT 93 SHOT DOWN\n\nEyewitness Reports at Odds With Official Scenario\n\nSome local residents here
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As a very good 9/11 researcher once said "I seek to establish the conspiracy FACTS not "conspiracy theory".  There is literally a mountain of physical and scientific evidence to counter the "official 9/11" story, far more than necessary to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it was not the way the official report says it happened.  There's also many in various industries and our government that benefitted tremendously from the aftermath of 9/11.\n\nThose that hold to the belief that "our government could never do such a thing" forget that in our history it has done such things before and it is well-documented fact.  People that choose to remain willfully ignorant just don't want to shatter their thin bubble of belief, if our members of our government were indeed complicit in such a tragedy, "something" would then need to be done and their whole world view that had been established for the last 4 years would crumble.  Their very identity as Americans, being good vs the evil, would crash down like a house of cards.  They would have to admit they had been lied to and they fell for it...better to keep your head buried in the sand.
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simple.....propaganda \n\ngermany's entire population fell for it under Hitler.\n\nhistory will look at America as the fool
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The same reason we heard FDR bombed Pearl Harbor, fake moon landing, Holocaust was a hoax, Mafia and/or Castro killed JFK, Area 51 reverse engineering of Roswell UFO, and that fossils were a conspiracy propagated by paleontologists.  There's always the feeble minded that will believe anything.  Look at the high percentage of the world (80%) who take as gospel the idea of a supernatural entity without a shred of evidence.
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Yes, I do.  It's very sobering to become a sceptical person about our government and to realize that they would knowingly condone this heinous act of murder.\nI once was one who believed that Al-Qaeda was soley behind 9/11.  Then about 2 months ago my wife brought home a DVD that reexamined all the evidence about how the WTC buildings collapsed, and it also showed a lot about the Pentagon attack.  Yes, I once was a person who thought that all these "conspiracy theorists" were just a bunch of nut cakes.  But, again, the physical evidence about what happened is quite shocking. \nThe web page below contains a lot of technical articles.  It is also easy to find other web sites that present a lot of information.  If you go to an "official" web site about 9/11, it's interesting to see how they side-step the hard questions that are being presented and cannot be sufficiently answered by jets simply crashing into buildings.\nSo, what does all of this mean?  We, the American public, have been duped.  But, what does that really change?  Has any of our personal lives really changed all that much?  How much of a difference does it personally make to us if it was Al-Qaeda or our own government that murdered innocent American lives?\nAnd so, we go on.  We live each day.  I ask myself what can I possibly do to get the truth out?  Being on the other side, one of the "conspiracy" nuts, is hard .. it's hard because no one wants to believe you.
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i would say the majority are americans
935388
for 9/11 to be a conspiracy it would take so many individuals to be a part of it....from the airlines, passengers, air traffic controllers, policemen, firemen, and a whole bunch of government officials...the conspiracy theorists are asking us to believe that not a single one of these people had their consciences bothered in this murdurous plot that killed almost 3,000 innocent people?....not a single one willing to speak out and expose this deadly conspiracy?...time to put all the conspiracy theories to bed and admit that it was a brilliant plot that caught america flat-footed......................
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Yes.\n\nAs for the second part, a lot of people just make up conspiracy theories to sound smart or because they simply don't understand what happens in space.