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Buh-Bye, Walter Cronkite: He Lost the Vietnam War for U.S. on TV, Had American Blood on His Hands
debbieschlussel.com ^ | 7/17/2009 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 07/17/2009 7:51:49 PM PDT by Sioux-san

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To: crazydad

Whenever a leftist liberal Media leader dies, an Angel gets its wings.


101 posted on 07/18/2009 1:55:16 AM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing ObamaÂ’s records!)
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To: DMZFrank

First of all, thanks for your service, second of all, great post, third of all, I must say I had the exact same anger swell up in me when I saw the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi exclaim “the war is lost” with this latest war our brave military has now all but won in Iraq.

Bush declared mission accomplished, and at the time it was...So-damn insane was pushed out of his palace and into a rat hole, his sons soon killed and that evil regime was destroyed forever.

Anyone marginally conscious could see the love and admiration our troops had for their CIC on that carrier when W landed and the banner was there. To this day children are being named after Bush in a land desperate for more freedom.

But you’d never know from the modern day Crank-ites and the rats in congress.

The supreme irony, the likes of the Jane Fondas and various other names scratched in permanent infamy in the minds of people that are decent and matter and make this country what it is, wouldn’t enjoy the freedoms they have to bleat such idiocy if not for brave people that died for them and the fact that this IS a good and decent and tolerant country, not the 4th reich these morons make it out to be.

More often than not if this were anywhere else these ignorant toads would be dragged out into the streets and summarily and very publically executed and/or tortured. But this escapes the permnanently mentally crippled left to this very day.

Anyway, most (decent and normal) Americans recognize that the Walter Crank-ites and Jane Fondas of the world are wrong-headed idiots.

My father was there, first in 66-7 with the 5th special forces, then again 69-70 as a helicopter pilot with the 1st cav.

Thanks again Frank.


102 posted on 07/18/2009 2:56:03 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: Bigun

Likely to be a very soggy grave site, isn’t it, Bigun?


103 posted on 07/18/2009 3:26:26 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Sioux-san

Agree 100%


104 posted on 07/18/2009 3:27:34 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Sioux-san

Walter spent a little too much time in his Fifth Avenue tri-plex and started to believe he was a very important man.


105 posted on 07/18/2009 3:30:10 AM PDT by AdaGray (uw)
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To: Sioux-san

Keith Olberman in the closet.


106 posted on 07/18/2009 3:30:18 AM PDT by anton
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To: EDINVA

This is what I’m talking about: anger. Sure, it’s healthy to be angry, but not for 40 or more years.

When I survived a cardiac arrest last year, it changed some of my outlook on life. For one, I stopped being so bitter. As I said, I had lost a good friend to the lasting effects of this war, but it took this arrest to make me finally give it up. Sure I miss my friend every day and I’m mindful of those who helped exacerbate this war and cause death and injury to so many (not to mention the mistreatment of those who came home from war). But now the bitterness is behind me. And I think I’m healthier for it.

Today, if someone reprehensible passes from this life, I may not feel sad for him, but neither will I wizz on his grave. I figure that he has appeared before God...God has looked over the ledger he keeps for all of us...and He has made his decision regarding Mr. Cronkite. Just as He will with all of us when our time comes. I’d rather just leave it at that.


107 posted on 07/18/2009 4:06:24 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: South40
Profiles in bias

Great link! Thank you.

108 posted on 07/18/2009 4:44:48 AM PDT by syriacus (Palin the ANTI-OBAMA says, "Only dead fish go with the flow.")
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To: Sioux-san

He not only had the blood on his hands of American and Vietnamese on his hands but all the Cambodian deaths that Pol Pot perpetuated as well.

A simply evil, know it all, eastern establishment liberal is what history should write.


109 posted on 07/18/2009 4:51:01 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: screenombre
After 5 years the communists were whipped . We even won TET big time. Walter Kronkite night after night pushed for the communists and spewed anti-American propaganda against our winning effort. After bombing the crap out of the North ,the Commies signed the Paris peace accords. We got our POWS back and we left. Then the POS Democraps cut the money off so the South Vietnamese , who had fought so hard and damned well against the Soviet supplied North, had no bullets or parts or bombs!! The Democrats CUT OFF THE MONEY AFTER WE WON!!! Then the North invaded and picked the low hanging defenseless fruit of Vietnam. It was Walter Kronkite that spewed out the wretched utterance that is taught in our schools today “WE LOST THE WAR”. The contempt that I have for that traitor and liar is unsurpassed.

AMEN brother! I couldn't have said it any better myself!

I fear for my own soul because of my feelings toward him and a few others of his ilk!

110 posted on 07/18/2009 4:51:45 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Rannug
I am 150% disabled

How is it that you are 150% disabled? I thought 100% was max.

111 posted on 07/18/2009 4:59:02 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Taxman

VERY likely indeed!

Hopefully they will bury the a-hole somewhere near that other b*stard, Robert S. McNamara, so we won’t have far to travel between waterings!


112 posted on 07/18/2009 5:03:24 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Sioux-san
How confusing!

According to the Leftists,

IT IS NOT okay for right-wingers to criticize Cronkite or his opinions,
but
IT IS okay for left-wingers to criticize those right-wing critics and their opinions.

Hmmmm...
Dare I say this?
Leftists have at least as much of a "holier than thou" attitude as they accuse rightwingers of having.

113 posted on 07/18/2009 5:06:15 AM PDT by syriacus (Palin the ANTI-OBAMA says, "Only dead fish go with the flow.")
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To: DMZFrank

Quite possibly the best post I’ve ever read on FreeRepublic. Thank you for it and for your service.


114 posted on 07/18/2009 5:09:42 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Sioux-san

I’m just sorry he had a long and happy life.


115 posted on 07/18/2009 5:47:13 AM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

The VA only compensates up to 100%, but all of one’s disabilities can total over 100%.


116 posted on 07/18/2009 5:50:39 AM PDT by Rannug
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To: DMZFrank

Thanks alot for that reply and for the service and ridicule men and women like you endured.

As a child of the 70’s, born in 1964, waste-high to adults of the time, I looked upwards to mesmerized faces of confusion for answers.

Accounts of re-telling like yours and others who have contributed here fill an uninformed void of my own young life.

Much thanks,

T


117 posted on 07/18/2009 6:05:01 AM PDT by 30 something american (never argue with idiots, they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: Sioux-san

later


118 posted on 07/18/2009 6:08:37 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: MindBender26
It was simply Johnson's attempt to shift the blame and excuse his decision to employ policies that would not allow our victory in RVN.

OK, but let's look at the bigger picture. (And maybe start a whole new thread). We could've won Vietnam in a year or two if we REALLY wanted to, but we were:
1) Trying to avoid drawing 2 million Chinese into the fight. (Likely)

2) Trying to avoid provoking a nuclear confrontation with the Russkies. (Less likely)

So, given all that, what'ya do?
119 posted on 07/18/2009 6:13:11 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: DMZFrank

*Bumping* your excellent post.


120 posted on 07/18/2009 6:24:27 AM PDT by Yardstick
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