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The distinction was drawn, at the time, between peacetime and wartime attacks. FDR's speech declaring war was calculated to inflame the American public by emphasizing the unfair sneakiness of it all. I really don't think it was nessesary to emphasize anything. We were attacked, declared war or otherwise, that was enough for the average American.
BTW, I don't think the course of the war would have been altered, other than timewise, even if the carriers had been caught in Pearl that day.
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