Are depressed people more realistic?

[Something completely different]

Not according to this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18389_the...it_p2.html

Allegedly President Franklin D. Roosevelt had advance knowledge about the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor, and deliberately let it happen so that Congress would declare war against Japan and Germany. In short, FDR on December 6, 1941 was like Vizzini from The Princess Bride, deeply engaged in a roundabout battle of wits with unsuspecting American lives.

First of all, the only reason why this rumor exists is because it was a smear used against FDR by his political opponents. The 1944 Republican nominee for president, Thomas E. Dewey, nearly made it an issue in his campaign. It was only after Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall explained what a dick move that would be that Dewey abandoned it.

But besides that (and the complete lack of evidence for it), the whole scenario just doesn't make sense. It'd be like FDR crashing a biplane into the Hindenburg just so he could light a cigarette he had no intention of smoking.

Truth be told, had Hitler not declared war on the U.S. four days later, FDR would have had one hell of an uphill fight getting Americans to fight, even with Pearl Harbor.

So to recap, America, the hero (actually Pippen, or possibly Rodman to Russia's Jordan) of the war, might not have joined the beloved (reviled drunk) Churchill, had it not been for the maverick decision (one of countless tactical errors) by the diabolical (borderline retarded) Hitler. Bang up job, History Channel!

Just in case you didnt notice:

WW2 had been going on for almoust 3 years when the US entered it.

Hitler had invaded Poland in 1939, taken France in 1940, marched through the Blakans into Greece in 1940, invaded the Soviet union in the summer of 1941 and sent troops to invade egypt in February 1941.

The US joined in December of 1941.

And the war in the pacific had already started in 1931, when imperial Japan invaded China and anexed Manchuria.



So, predicting a war which had already started 3 or 10 years ago, isnt exactly a grand prediction.

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That has even less to do with junkyardhobos preachings of doom.

I jumped the gun on that article. Still, for some reason I have it in my head that most people did not see the war coming. Perhaps it has to do with what I have learned in relation to the concentration camps through movies related to the war. Too many Jews were captured for them to have known the war was coming.

Anyway, doing some research into it, but unable to find anything because search engines are crap, I did stumble onto something interesting.

Everyone saw it coming, the Polish were anxious as hell and tried to gear up desperatly, the French built up a massive (but useless) defencive line.

The thing is, almoust every western nation hoped that nazi germany would invade the soviet union first and would destroy communism in Russia.

Or at least stop communism from spreading further into Europe.