Re: POLITICIANS AND OTHERS IN GAMING

Give this one a rest, PLEASE !

Imre A. Szabo wrote:

>Ok, I'll spell it out for you...
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>How did Admiral Kimmel's well known bravado in U.S. forces and contempt
for
>the Japanesse influence the actions of the men under him that led to
the
>disaster at Pearl Harbor?
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>The radar operator who picked up a large flight of aircraft coming from
the
>opposite direction the aircraft due to arrive that day should have been
>coming from that day.
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>The non-response from fleet when a U.S. Destroyer detected, attacked,
and
>destroyed a midget submarine trying to enter Pearl Harbor before the
attack
>on Pearl Harbor.
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>I vaguely remmeber something about an imortant message (possibly about
the
>midget sub) that was left sitting on an officiers desk instead of being
>forwarded and acted upon.
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>In everyone of these cases, there was sufficient cause to put that base
and
>those ships on alert.	But why weren't they.  Could have Admiral
Kimmel's
>over confidence and contempt infected his men and resulted in them
making a
>serries of bad mistakes?  No one knows the answer to this, but his
attitude
>most certainly did nothing to discourage it.
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>Note, that in none of this did Admiral Kimmel need accurate information
from
>Washington.
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>ias
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