This seems relevent...

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today:
"Here's Kerry, quoting Richard Clarke:

The terrorism czar, who has worked for every president since Ronald Reagan, said, 'Invading Iraq in response to 9/11 would be like Franklin Roosevelt invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor.'

Does this mean Kerry would have voted to authorize the invasion of Mexico had he been in the Senate back then?

A blogger called Steve makes a related point:

What exactly did Nazi Germany have to do with Pearl Harbor?
Absofreakinglutely nothing.
If you go and read FDR's 'Day of Infamy' speech, there is not one single reference to Nazi Germany or a role for America in the war in Europe. Not one. . . . Yet, within months, FDR decided to pursue a 'Europe First' strategy which involved our putting the core of the United States Army into North Africa and then into Europe, on the other side of the planet from the perpetrators of the Pearl Harbor attack in Japan.
Why did he do this? Partly in response to the belief that Nazi Germany was developing a nuclear weapon. Can you imagine what would have happened to Tom Dewey if he had tried to rip into FDR in the campaign of 1944 on this issue? He would have been crucified, and rightly so.

Maybe Bluto was right after all?