From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia 10th ed. 1994 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt): "Public opinion,however, was in favour of staying out of the war, so Roosevelt and the military chiefs deliberately kept back the inteligence reports received from the British and others concerning the imminent Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii."

The American people must now ask their unelected President why he suppressed investigations into known terrorist groups before September 11. They should understand that the pretext for Bush's expansionist neo-colonialism and absolute war only benefits the rich, at the expense and the lives of ordinary Americans.