Sir, I can assure you that FDR manipulating us into war with Japan is indeed fact. By seizing Japan's assets and embargoing the nation due to their invasion of China (something Western nations, including the USA, at the time would have called "business as usual", but only for the West, not the "yellowman") the Japanese were forced into Dutch Indo-China to seize rubber, tin and oil to replace the goods they could not acquire due to the embargo. Earlier in 1940, the Dutch Crown was evacuated and sought asylum in the UK after the Netherlands were overrun by Germany, making any action against Dutch Indo-China an act against the UK vis-a-vis the asylum given to the Dutch Crown. Knowing that this move would in effect be a declaration of war against the UK and their ally the US, Japan had no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor in order to have some chance of survival due to strength of the US Navy. It is also fact sir, that FDR had prior knowledge of this attack through the interception and decoding of Japanese naval communications and allowed it to be carried out. "The United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act.", FDR's transmission relayed to all US Military commanders via Secretary of War Stimson. So much for his 1940 campaign platform of "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars".