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Monday, January 16, 2006

Not Satisfied with the Blood on His Hands from Vietnam...

Walter Cronkite wants more. In Michelle Malkin's post, she links to Austin Bay's post on this subject. Small Town Veteran has a post on this also.

Because of his role as "respected" news anchor, Walter Cronkite had a pivotal role in Americans beginning to believe that we were losing the Vietnam War after the 1968 Tet Offensive. Though the orchestrated attacks of the Tet Offensive caught us by surprise, we won. The Viet Cong/North Vietnamese lost and they knew it. I have blogged about this before, months ago. We were not wrong in Vietnam, but we handled it wrong.

Years after the war ended, in his memoirs General Giap admitted that they were ready to give up, but because of the Leftist/Kremlin-orchestrated anti-war movement and public figures, e.g., Cronkite, Jane Fonda, etc., jumping on board, the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese came to believe that if they hung on long enough, we would give up. It took several years and tens of thousands more American and Vietnamese lives, but General Giap was right. Walter Cronkite had his victory and thousands died. Walter lied and thousands died.

And he thinks that running out on Iraq is the right thing to do. As we left those Vietnamese loyal to us in the lurch, Walter, et al, would have us do the same thing to the Iraqi voters.

I can't figure out if he is that stupid, that arrogant, or that evil.

Because of him and others of the same ilk, the "black granite" wall in Washington, DC is much larger than it could have been.

Walter lied and thousands died.
Posted by: on-the-rocks / 9:55 AM
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