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The Lies of War

The Lusitania - Precursor to America’s Entry to WWI

The hand of the invisible government has found it needful to devise atrocities that will
mobilize public sentiment in favor of entry into war. The powers that govern realize that
Americans are reluctant to engage in foreign wars. This was all the more true a century ago
after a long period of isolationism. Americans viewed World War I as an European conflict.
Most citizens of the United States believed that it was none of their affair. The banking
interests needed some event to serve as a catalyst to move American opinion in the direction
of open engagement in the war. The sinking of the ocean liner the Lusitania proved to be
that catalyst.

The sinking of the Lusitania was a contrived affair. Although reported as an unprovoked
attack of a German submarine on a defenseless passenger ship that carried nothing that
threatened Germany’s war effort, the truth was far different. Of course, it was not the truth
that was reported in the New York Times, or other newspapers of America. They printed
propaganda with the sole aim of getting the American public to embrace entry into the war.

Cunard Lines, a British shipping company, owned the Lusitania. They had turned the ship
over to the British Navy for use by England in her war against Germany. The First Lord of
the Admiralty during WWI was Winston Churchill. The Lusitania was operating as an
auxiliary ship of the English Navy.

Churchill sent the Lusitania to New York City where it was loaded with six million rounds
of ammunition, owned by J.P. Morgan & Co., to be used by England and France in their war
against Germany. England broke the German war code on December 14, 1914, and by the
end of January 1915 British Intelligence was able to advise the Admiralty of the departure
of every German U-boat as it left for patrol. Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the
Admiralty knew when German U-boats would be in the area of the English Channel that
separates England and France.

Germany had spies who worked on the New York docks. They reported that weapons were
being loaded onto the Lusitania, which was also set to carry more than a thousand
passengers to be disembarked in Ireland. Germany did not want America to enter the war
on the side of the English and French. The German government did all it could to avoid