Cronkite goes to bat for tyranny again
January 17, 2006
Walter Cronkite, a man once actually considered trustworthy, is trying to do for Zarqawi and his boys what he did for the North Vietnamese -- help them defeat the United States in a war.
As reported in Newsmax, Cronkite said on Sunday "It's my belief that we should get out now."
The one-time anchor of the CBS Evening News went on to say that Bush should have used Hurricane Katrina as an excuse to cut and run, actually suggesting that it would be honorable:
"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...Therefore, we are going to have to bring our troops home... I think we could have been able to retire with honor."
Cronkite went on to suggest that we tell the Iraqis that "our hearts are with you." I suppose that he feels that the long suffering one-time victims of Saddam Hussein would be glad to know that.
That a man like Cronkite thinks that making excuses to leave our allies in a lurch, and then extending worthless Clintonoid platitudes as we consign them back to the tyranny they have suffered under for so long, would constitute honor, shows how little that concept is understood on the left. But then, a subset of the American public who consider Viet Nam to be their greatest triumph, the glory days they want to get back to, has greater lapses of understanding than that, if they think that they will ever again represent a ruling majority in the USA.
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