Walter Cronkite: STFU!

Ex-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. More here

Walter, shut up . You should have shut up in  1968 when you aided and abetted our enemy then. You do us all great harm.

We know we can't beat you on the battlefield, but we can beat you on the streets of New York Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. -- North Vietnamese camp commander, Son Tay POW camp to Commander Paul Galanti, U.S. Navy, American POW.

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.- Albert Einstein

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[J Pierpont Flathead]

You're so eager for others to go, what's keeping you?

[nikkolai]

Walter, wipe the drool off your chin.

[nikkolai]

You too, Flathead.

[Tyranno]

How bizarrely interesting watching history repeats itself as farce. This is exactly how we benefit from the internet, FOX news and all the other information streams that have exposed the dishonesty of the left and has them pulling their hair out. Back in the day when they controlled all aspects of the medias Cronkite could get away with influencing events by presenting his personal political opinion as a fact. History has proven that he was exactly wrong in his emotional estimation.

Another way of looking at this statement is that the same guy who got it absolutely wrong about TET and helped convince the country that all was hopeless and the only alternative was to cut and run, appears to want to condemn millions of Iraqis to the same fate he helped condemn millions of Vietnamese. Cronkite's frivolous statement is just another example of the dangerous superficiality of the left's self referencing perspective on the world. It is Pauline Kael updated, "No one I know voted for Bush!" thus the world thinks like them, and yet they can not gather more than a few thousand "protesters" to their "Million Man Peace Rally!" anti-war farce in Washington DC last year.

The best democrat left "solutions" up to this point have been; 1) Things were better when the criminal hussein regime was wrecking its havoc on the Iraqi people (400,000 corpses unearthed from unmarked graves thus far ...) or, 2) cutting and running ~ consequences be damned!
So the question for me is, Did these bright young progressives demonstrate against the war in Vietnam on principle or because it might cost them something, ie ... getting drafted? Do they demonstrate against the war in Iraq on principle or because it might cost them something? (having to face the ugly reality they know they had been, and have been hoping to ignore? ) And if you wish to tell me it is principles, please explain which principles?
The only fuzzy logic of an Iraq~Vietnam parallel that I see is a repetition of the U.S. sucks/ defeatist behavior on the left. I guess I missed all of their "principled" demonstrations against the criminal hussein regime, as well as all of their 'principled" demonstrations of concern for the Iraqi peoples. I certainly don't remember any of them in the streets or on TV before it all became a useful club to wield against the U.S.A. Most of these "principled" people knew about as much about Iraq then as they know about Congressman Murtha now! (not completely true, before these "principled" people were bashing the U.S. about "creating" the Hussein regime!)

The warm fuzzy bubble of leftist mythology remains unperterbed by history and reality. They have their strawman arguments and preferred myths, and although they don't withstand much scrutiny in the light of day, they are sticking with them.

Thus the election was "stolen," Bush is "stupid," and "Iraq = Vietnam." It is a tired old playbook but the #1 rules remains; Truth that does not serve the PARTY, is not an option.

Tyranno