Pugsville - sorry, you miss very respected and officially expressed facts in your post. E.g. the back-door theory has been well documented - so is the promises to Churchill - and all the technical facts. The US Court documents were released to public by mistake when the library was changed and some US universities copied the top-secret documents showing clearly that FDR and about 30 his colleagues were seen guilty ... ironically, olny the innocent P Harbor commanders were punished.

I have mentioned earlier the official documents, but nobody wants to read them - therefore I put easier links as came in my search here:

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Beyond a doubt Pearl Harbor was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s back door into the European War. Roosevelt’s decisions and actions were very much so, deliberate and calculated, in order to lead a victorious Allied Powers in World War II. By provoking the Japanese and the foreknowledge of an attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt along with his top advisors and the Federal Government are truly to blame for the lost of American life’s and American property. 7 December 1941 shall be a day in American history, which will be remembered as “a day of deceit.”

THE PEARL HARBOR DECEPTION

President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war. FDR blinded the commanders at Pearl Harbor and set them up by --

Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies