if he was so gung-ho to join the war why was he proposing to mediate a peace conference only four months before the US declared war? why did he base his entire 1916 presidential campaign on explicitly keeping the US OUT of the war? why did he wait three months hoping for a peaceful solution after receiving the zimmermann telegram that explicitly stated that germany was secretly trying to find an ally to backstab the US and annex its western states? why did he wait two months after the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, when americans were dying by the hundreds every week, to declare war on germany if he was thirsty for war? that's two cut-and-dry, totally legal casus belli that he could have used instantly, but the secret warmonger who apparently had spent years running a nefarious anti-german propaganda machine with the express intent to bring the americans into the war sits on two perfectly valid CB's for months because...reasons?