Who Cares What Cronkite Thinks?
I mean really? Who was the man’s competition back in the day? 2 other people? Come on! “The most trusted man” next to who? his 2 competitors? He is a pompous blowhard that really isn’t relevant to today’s culture! That being said, this is what he had to say today!
Via the AP
Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, said Sunday he’d say the same thing today about Iraq.
“It’s my belief that we should get out now,” Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.
The best time to have made a similar statement about Iraq came after Hurricane Katrina, he said.
“We had an opportunity to say to the world and Iraqis after the hurricane disaster that Mother Nature has not treated us well and we find ourselves missing the amount of money it takes to help these poor people out of their homeless situation and rebuild some of our most important cities in the United States,” he said. “Therefore, we are going to have to bring our troops home.”
Iraqis should have been told that “our hearts are with you” and that the United States would do all it could to rebuild their country, he said.
“I think we could have been able to retire with honor,” he said. “In fact, I think we can retire with honor anyway.”
Go back to your bubble! Most trusted man my a@@!
January 16, 2006 - 12:00 AM on January 16th, 2006
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January 16, 2006 - 09:01 AM on January 16th, 2006
Who cares? Obviously he does. Recall his desire to set the agenda in 2002.
January 16, 2006 - 11:28 AM on January 16th, 2006
Walley Cronkite is just your usial liberal left-wing journalists blabbering his left-wing propeganda:mad:
January 16, 2006 - 11:49 AM on January 16th, 2006
Good old Walter Commiekite. I remember the day when he said (right after the TET offensive, when the NVA/VC had shot the works, lost BIG, and were on the brink of collapse militarily) Walter misleading the American people with his now famous statement, and shifting the propaganda/political initiative over to the enemy.
He is a pos. Now he can say what he wants, but we’re onto him. History has shown him to be just another leftist traitor.
January 17, 2006 - 02:59 PM on January 17th, 2006
I don’t know. The VC were probably much stronger than the insurgents in Iraq, due to the fact they had the support of a government. Although history has proven Cronkite right, with his formula that the terrorists we kill must be greater than terrorists we create due to world backlash.
January 17, 2006 - 03:59 PM on January 17th, 2006
The VC and the Iraqi insurgents have the support of the American Left and of the News Media. The First Gulf War showed much of America that standing up to the anti-America left was something that not only needed to be done, but was vital in winning the war.
Liberals in Canada and America don’t get it. We aren’t surrendering to Terror, the insurgents, or the stupidity of Liberals.
January 17, 2006 - 04:03 PM on January 17th, 2006
Arcane,
You have to be the single biggest fucking moron I have ever heard in my life. Did we “create” the terrorists that killed the Israeli athletes in Munich? Did we “create” the terrorists that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1983? Did we “create” the animals that hijacked the Achille Lauro and threw a wheelchair-bound man overboard? Did we “create” the terrorists that attemted to destroy the WTC in 1993???
All of a sudden, we are “creating” terrorists.
Seems to me that these muslim animals have been at it LONG BEFORE FUCKING IRAQ.
you are an idiot.
January 17, 2006 - 08:16 PM on January 17th, 2006
Arcane: What history has proved was that the VC and NVA were essentially beaten after TET. If we had only kept our resolve, they would have been out of business.
But America’s resolve was weakened by Walter Commiekite and others, and that gave strength and courage to the NVA to continue.
What history has proved is that Walter Commiekite is another pos.
The damage done to American foriegn policy by the weakening of American resolve during the Vietname War is almost incalculable. It led to the Mogadishu debacle, and now the Islamofascists, no dummies, are hoping the same undermining of American resolve, by the same players, will benefit them.
January 17, 2006 - 08:18 PM on January 17th, 2006
Please, I am not implying we should do anything severe like stop killing terrorists or destroy Israel, but some things have to stop. The Vietnam War, though public opinion had a large part to do with it, became unwinnable when we tried to take them by the balls, and not their hearts and minds.
Muslims are very centered around the nuclear family. If we kill a family’s father, for instance, it is likely his son will join up as a result. When we kill the son, his friend will try to avenge him, etc. To pacify Iraq, will we have to kill every male ages 16-50?
Outside of Kurdistan, Americans are extremely unpopular. I guess what I’m trying to say is that we have to stop as much killing as be popular. Value putting up hospitals and electricity over oil fields! Use much cheaper Iraqi companies to do work instead of Halliburton!
Please, don’t get me wrong, if someone really hates America, as in Osama or his aides, then they deserve to die. But if they are just some kid who misunderstand what we are trying to do in Iraq and had his dad kill in crossfire, we need to cut down creating terrorists by not killing them, but eliminating the inspiration of them.
January 17, 2006 - 08:37 PM on January 17th, 2006
Arcane- I think I see where you are trying to go with that, but what about all the males that grew up under the Saddam Regime? Not all of them pledged their undying support to him did they? In fact many are dying as we speak to take back their land and government from the terrorists. As for this comment:
The oil fields are vital to their economic stability. Haliburton, as much as people hate to admit it, is the best of the best! And I believe they are employing locals. Hospitals and electricity are being constructed and reconstructed. You should try to research some of the positive things that have and do happen in Iraq.
January 18, 2006 - 07:54 AM on January 18th, 2006
Arcane, you are an uninformed tool. We do contract with Iraqis and anyone else that CAN DO THE JOB. If the MSM were os liberal agenda driven, you’d see the stories, not have to got to Michael Yon and other sources outside the MSM cabal.
I notice now that the insurgents are kidnapping the liberal know-it-all reporters that sided eith the insurgents. I say just desserts to them.