Longtime Anchor Walter Cronkite Speaks Out Against Iraq War 
Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Former longtime anchor for CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite, has turned to Common Dreams News Center to speak out about the Iraq War. "The American people no longer support the war in Iraq," he wrote. "The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose."

Here is an excerpt from the article he co-authored with David Krieger:

   "But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respecet for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president.

"The War in Iraq reminds us of the tragedy of the Vietnam War. Both wars began with false assertions by the president to the American people and the Congress. Like Vietnam, we have destroyed cities in order to save them. It is not a strategy for success.

"The Bush administration has attempted to forestall ending the war by putting in more troops, but more troops will not solve the problem. We've lost the hearts and minds of most the Iraqi people, and victory no longer seems to be even a remote possibility. It is time to end our occupation of Iraq, and bring our troops home."

The rest of the editorial is here. Have you noticed how former CBS News anchors are ready to take up arms in the press over the war lately?  Dan Rather, who was actually Cronkite's replacement, was allegedly fired by CBS for his reports on the Iraq War.  It must be all that suppression they have to deal with when working for CBS Studios... Well, I say Cronkite knows what he's talking about, and we shouldn't take his word lightly.  The man, after all, first gained natinoal attention for his reporting from the battlefields of World War II, and later reported in Vietnam during the aftermath of that war.  He was hailed as "the most trusted man in America" for 18 years, and is still, of course, a household name.

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