Since the declassification of WWII materials, any number of recent books like Betrayal at Pearl Harbor, indicates that the powerful in Washington misled our grandparents to ensure America's entry into the war against fascism. The most compelling is Robert Stinnett's Day of Deceit

Utilizing the Freedom of Information Act to discover decrypted Japanese naval and diplomatic messages read by the White House

Stinnett cites FDR's 1940 systematic operational plan and concludes that not only did President Roosevelt know the Japanese planned to attack Pearl Harbor, he goaded them into it.

"I understood the agonizing dilemma faced by President Roosevelt," Stinnett writes in modifying his "sense of outrage" after discovering FDR's duplicity. "He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight

"smoking gun," an 8-point plan designed to force Japan to attack American soil written by FDR's naval aide.