Agreed. Although I can't claim to be very informed about the 9/11 investigations, the #1 and #2 examples are baloney. Particularly #2.
The oil embargo on Japan was in response to Japan's military invasion of China and SE Asia. FDR did not engineer Pearl Harbour. He may have taken political advantage of it to act according to his sympathies (e.g. to enter the war), but that conspiracy theory doesn't wash. His focus was on Germany throughout the early stages of the war, and it was touch and go whether the US would have declared war on Germany even after Pearl Harbour. Fortuitously, Hitler declared war on the US in an excess of egotism, which was the key post-Pearl Harbour event that drew the US into WWII in Europe.
To back this up, see The Churchill War Papers, a three-volume set of Churchill's memoranda and telegrams during WWII, collected by Martin Gilbert, the official Churchill biographer.
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