KB, the massacres obviously were not involved in the decision to go to war and I never suggested such a ludicrous thing.
They did create anger and fear among the population.
I really have been over this many times. Please consider skimming through if you are serious.
Why did you extract the one comment by that secretary and ignore all the clear evidence that the military considered the threat of invasion as very real?
I was not even sure than what CID was.
Presumably you were?

Musket, congratulations on becoming a historian again.
Please name any of your colleagues who are not revisionists.
If there are none, you must be a very lonely little historian.
Poor little historian.
You should not have said they were "stupid, stupid," "should hang their heads in shame," and that "historians should know better." !

Seriously, are there any living historians whose views contradict mine and support yours?
No.
Discussion over.