that war was basically won after 72 and the failure of hte Easter Offensive. all the US had to do was supply the ARVNs and they'd have evolved like South Korea. But the US didn't need to support them after Nixon went to China and the Chinese aligned themselves with the Americans against soviet expansion in the region. It was still a dirty trick to just abandon millions of vietnamese to slave camps though.
So, joeereed, the dictators are...Johnson? Nixon? McNamara? Not that I am fond of Fonda and the others mentioned, but they didn't create Vietnam, did they?
Asking cronkite about what he thought of an editorial he read is like asking harrison ford how what he thought of the lines he said playing han solo. totally irrelevant.
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Cronkite is a blowhard. When I was growing up he was proclaimed as "fair and reasonable". What we didn't understand that the groups who were parroting this falsehood were the same leftist, Anit-American progressives that Uncle Walter Cronkite identified with. It's unfortunate that he didn't pass away in 1967, he would have done less damage to the United States. Good riddance to this P.O.S.
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type in youtube search, Walter Cronkite Satan, and watch it. He says that he is glad to sit at the right hand of Satan. I hope that he is burning in Hell with his God.
type in youtube search, Walter Cronkite Satan, and watch it. He says that he is glad to sit at the right hand of Satan. I hope that he is burning in Hell with his God.
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Walter Cronkite was Rabid dog Traitor who sold out Am Republic for his personal fame and fortune.The dirty dog worked for those who instigated WW1,WW2,Vietnam,Lincoln&Kennedy assassination yet he spoke that he was for a World Govern to prevent these. This SOB was dumb, and confused but a ready mouth piece for World Govern cause the Banker-zion controlled media paid him well. I know he was anti-GOD,anti-Christ, cause the Bible tells that a One World Gov. is terrible for all-enjoy Hell bitch.
Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to esculate this war.
Best for people to examine the Gulf of Tonkin incident and to hear what Secretary of State Robert McNamara says about this today! About this false flag attack, McNamara says we made a mistake and that, "It never happened!"
VietNam wasn't even close to Communism. Remember Communism only exists in theory. We've been raised to believe that Democracy is the best and only answer.
@FREAKNIZZLE100 Your point being? America may have won every conventional battle against the PAVN, but it didn't matter. The Vietnamise had an entirely different mentality about death to the US, to quote Ho Chi Mihn "You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it". Also every conventional battle was on PAVN terms they always chose were it was and when it was.
vietnam was a war fought n the same concept as the korean war, it was a mistake by the preseident that cost alot of lives, based on the american idea of themselves, it has happened again and will continue to do so, it is the americans that need to change to stop this, not one man.
@1988052420 yeah i completely agree with you, and as Americans we like to play the blame game, so i doubt we will ever change our viewpoints about policing the world.
My dad was in the Army. He was a door gunner in Vietnam from December 1969-November 1970. He died of Agent Orange related lung/brain cancer on March 20, 2008. Vietnam was a WASTE!!!
No it wasn't a waste. Every american soldier fighting against comunism all around the globe built a step to our liberty, in Eastern Europe. He fought for our liberties, for our future. Soldiers of my country are fighting right now in Afghanistan against talibans and they fought in Irak too. Some are dying and some people are saying here in Romania that this is a waste. Simply you must go there to fight for the future of humanity. My mother died of cancer two weeks ago. It's hard...
I'm looking for a video clip from Vietnam where a reporter is interviewing a soldier and an explosion is close by. The soldier doesn't even flinch while speaking. I don't know who is interviewing the soldier and I don't remember what they were talking about, I just remember the broken down look on this man's face and how he was desensitized. He didn't stop talking and he didn't flinch. The interviewer dropped down a bit and covered his head. This man just stood there. Incredible.
Walter and his leftist advocacy journalism prolonged the war causing the deaths of millions. It marked the beginning of the end for American journalism which is now dead. He has the blood of many people on his hands.
Hey, fishinwflies, why dont you tell us what there was to be won in Nam without sounding like the fucking moron that you are by saying it was to stop Communism when you LOST Vietnam and, HEY, communism didn't take over the USA although I'm sure you'll say it did because a half african american man became President while telling us that he's a Marxist, communist, Muslim, terrorist sympathizer who eats arugula with Dijon mustard and was born in Kenya. Go back to watching Fox News dipshit.
Cronkite was anything but an un-biased newsman. When he came back from Vietnam and announced the war was a "stalemate" this truly had an affect on the public's opinion of Vietnam.
Bye bye Walter...say hello to that Freemason pig Johnny Cash and child toucher Wacko Jacko while ur burning in the pits of hell u fucking traitor scum bag*
I was in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The Viet Cong was taken to the cleaners and not heard from again except in small squad size engagements.
Read, "A Viet Cong Memoir" by Truong Nhu Tang, the former Minister of Justice. For those that believe that Walter Cronkite was correct and that the War protest movement wasn't controlled by the Communist of Vietnam this book will be an eye opener.
UH, NO THAT IS DEFINITLY NOT THE WAY IT IS. And brother, you ain't no genius. The difference between current reporters and Walter is that they now have nice legs and faces etc. Good by Walter and good riddence
piss off you commie traitor bastard! I hope that someday true Americans will give you your due, and I do not mean the so called americans who put a red in the WH
Is author sifting thru these comments, and will mine be deemed worthy to post, or too opinionated? Lets see if author betters the "state run" drive-by consensus media and allows my posts? Yet the unusual thoughtfulness of these posts may show that there is method in his madness; I don't see F bombs & illegible posts here, for SOME reason... G' nite.
Because of his anti-sovereignty beliefs, perhaps he's really "the most dangerous man in America" As he said in his own words referring to one-world government, "I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan"
God only knows what a fantasy perception you have of the Vietnam War. You still don't get it. It was manufactured by reporters who only wanted the US out of S. Vietnam and leave this worthy ally to the communists. If you ever do start to understand how the media manipulated the news you will be numbed. But I think we are past that peril now. Now we have multiple news sources. The day of Uncle Walter are no more. Plus the public is more aware now.
Looking back, we had General Giap, Mark Felt (disgruntled CIA oportunist) Jane Fonda-pseudo Marxist, Tom Hayden (SDS/radical student terrorist) , John Kerry (political hack), Walter Cronkite-the wise, Ed Kennedy, etc, etc.
Dictators may never have it so good again. My god, what a group.
You've lived 59 years on this planet and still lack understanding.
That is truly remarkable. The world is not a Hollywood movie. It is not about Good and Evil and Good always triumphing over evil. In the case of the Vietnam war there was no Good and Evil (as there rarely is). It was a gray area and a HUGE mistake for the USA. You may see it differently (by insulting those who also came to this conclusion) but these are not their failings. They're YOUR failings. You lack understanding.
This 'gray area' theme has become a bit of a mantra:
Terrorist holding severed head: Gray
Navy seal rescues mates: also gray
North Korea: Gray area to avoid
U.S.A.: Gray that pays well
So it's a gray world, and how convenient for the liberal retards. They no longer need to think, there is nothing to discuss.
They are now completely free to lecture the 59 year olds who are plagued by illusions of colour, and remember a world where the good guy may not have always won,, but he did usually try.
God, that is well spoken, jy768 ! And this section of comments is so above-youtube average! The current political correctness / moral relativism that OK's Dr. Tiller sucking out 9 mo. old babes' brains and, in his words, "crushing their skulls in a manner similar to a lobster shell" to withdraw thru undilated cervix reminds me of the nutty American / Hindu amalgamation devotions from Sai Baba sent to me by a CA relative. Nobody responsible for nothing, and only error is thinking reality is real
jy768, So Well Spoken ! This liberal stuff I believed so strongly until the army math research center fell on van full of fertilizer & killed a fellow U.W. employee of my father was FOR REAL, and in its hyped up ramped up version, gives "Choice" to a Dr. Tiller, who sucks the brains from 9 month old babies and in his own words, crushes their heads "like a lobster shell" to remove baby from undilated cervix...Sex and feeling are God, conviction is suspect, and anyone with a sincere belief a hack
Don't you just love the Rush Limbaugh'-type clowns in the world? These idiot do not even realize the reason America lost the war in Viet Nam: The Chinese. I think Dr. Tiller sucked the brains out of these individuals.
Lets say you were in Nam, it explains your hostility towards anyone who criticized that war. Growing up you were suckered in believing how glorious war was by your cowardly relatives who probably spent all of WW2 cleaning shitters on Army bases. You saw how in movies and TV, the veterans of WW2 were revered as heroes for fighting back the Japanese and Nazis. But it's always burned your ass that you never got the heroes welcome that you craved which is why you shit on Walter Cronkite.
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I'm going to just put you on ignore because Cronkite has been dead now for a few weeks and I really couldn't give a shit anymore about what some conservative sociopaths or burnout Nam vets have to say about a war that history has recorded as being lost and that's because there never was anything to win in the first place. Deny the facts all you like, history has shown you to be profoundly wrong.
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Typical conservative, blaming others for your own failure as a person. Oh BooHoo, it wasnt my fault, it was those mean liberals who were half way around the world, it was the politicians, its was my commanding officer. Gee, havent heard that before from a conservative chickenshit lowlife. Call the fucking whaaaambulance. Hey, wheres your medals you dickless pansy? I bet you never got any since you probably shit yourself any time someone farted in your presence.
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The military is used to thin out the heard of braindead cattle, like yourself, who would otherwise be pumping gas for a living. I bet you used to blow your superior officers so that you could stay at the base you massive homo pussy. "Sweet pants"? I bet that's what the other officers call your son when he's in the shower and checking out all the other cops while tugging on his millimeter peter and pretending he's washing it. I bet he gets two big black cocks in both pipes every night. Loser.
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Yeah, say that to the 1 to 2 million people who were killed in NAM by fucking cowards like you and John McCain who destroyed whole villages, killing women and children, by shooting them up and bombing them with napalm. Also, why do you give a shit if people were killed on 9/11, according to right wing plebs like you New York is filled with nothing but comie pinko liberals. You couldn't care less about those people, they're just another excuse for animals like you to kill and destroy.
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Yeah, I'm sure your son faces plenty of gangbangers on his knees every day while they shove his nightstick up his ass that's probably right red from all the pounding it gets on a daily basis. Hope your medical insurance covers you when you break your back trying to suck your own cock because I doubt that even crack whores would lower themselves to let you fuck them for the two seconds that it takes you to cum. You make Forrest Gump look like fucking Albert Einstein you cum chugging douchebag.
Your son? You sure about that because I doubt a limp dick like you could get it up unless it was for a 12 year old Vietnamese boy. I think you got suckered into supporting the kid fathered by whatever homeless person your whore was nailing behind your back. I bet shed stick her tongue in his filthy asshole before coming home and giving you a nice big kiss. You must have money because no woman would spread their legs for your shriveled, one inch fuckstick unless they were getting paid.
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I also guarantee that hes not your son as it doesnt sound like he comes off a low IQ failure like you. If he is your kid Im sure hes probably a closet homo who only worked for the coast guard so he could be alone at sea with a bunch of men who would play The Village People while he kneeled down and was used as their cum dumpster to his delight. The only reason hed work as a cop was so that he could bust trannies and get sucked off and assfucked in his patrol car.
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It seems that YouTube has diabled their ignore function, probably because they like seeing me fisting your lily white candy ass. "If this country is attacked"? Which country is that you senile cockslurper? Canada doesn't go around bombing brown people around the world which is why the US got whacked on 9/11 and before that it right wing scum like you at Oklahoma who were afarid that the Government was going to take away the guns that you need to overcompensate for your tiny little cocks. Douche.
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I don't have a sister so you must be projecting the time you caught your son doing that in his mothers clothes while also shoving her 12 inch black dildo up his gaping asshole and watching your gay porn tapes that you have stashed that trunk you have in the basement also containing the letter of dishonorable discharge you recieved because you got the hiccups and chewed off your superior officers cock. Also, John Wayne and you have something in common, you both pretend to be soldiers and real men
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Im referencing black cocks because I found your sons website and he seems to like having a lot of them shoved into his mouth and asshole. Oh look, heres a video where his mother sucks the cum out of his glazed shithole before spitting it in that jar of mayonnaise that you use on your sandwiches. You were probably wondering why your sandwiches have tasted so good lately. Probably reminds you of all the 10 year old Vietnamese boys you sucked off in the NAM!
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I bet your parents, who were brother and sister, must be ashamed to have shat a brainless right wing fucking moron like you into the world. They most likely gave up trying to abort you after shoving that coat hanger into your brain which didnt kill you since your higher motor functions are controlled by your ass. When you were dragged into the army they probably hoped that it would have made you a man instead of the Agent Orange saturated, mentally handicapped, troglodyte that you are today.
@jy768 lol if anything its the conservatives who started the who "RealPolitik" mantra of relative power, rather than right and wrong. That was under Nixon
The US media was incompetent in televising the Vietnam War. They did not know what they were doing. Walter had two full years of college completed. Imagine. Two full years. I hope he doesn't run into General Abrams !! IYKWIM
It's true, what Walter said just before he died of polio: Barack Obama is an arrogant, two-faced, power-mad, tax-and-spend, socialist son of a bitch...Rush Limbaugh for President!
(Part 2) and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremberg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary." [Walter Cronkite from his 1996 book: "A Reporter's Life" ]
(Part 1) "If we are to avoid that catastrophe (nuclear devastation), a system of world order - preferably a system of world government - is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago...When we finally come to our senses
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All you stupid fuckn pukes that think the war is so fuckn great, grab up a motherfuckn rifle, and get your dumb fuckn asses over in sand NIGGER land. We don't need you here.Put your ill gotten money where your cocksuckn mouff is and get the fuck out and kill some sand NIGGERS! Don't forget to suck suma dat Camels cock you cowardly little pussies.
Cronkite got us OUT of the illegal, unjustified Vietnam War. There are kids alive today because their dads and granddads were brought HOME from Vietnam instead of dying in a god-forsaken, steaming jungle. Too bad we didn''t have a Cronkite today to question the Iraq debacle - the Vietnam of the 21st century - before 4,600 brave US troops died there for no reason whatsoever other than to settle Bush's personal vendetta with Saddam. Our troops are not PAWNS to be used like toy soldiers.
what in hell is wrong with you people? Liberal piece of shit? Burn in hell? Nice compassion and respect for others' point of views. This man saw the truth of the situation, which was that the military top brass fabricated whatever numbers were convenient to them to continue feeding the war machine. HE has blood on his hands? What about the people that prolonged this ridiculous, wrongheaded, and damaging war for years, despite the clear knowledge that we were in the wrong, and losing?
Walter Cronkite was a recipient of the Norman Cousin's award for world governance. He did not believe in the sovereignty of the United States. He advocated planetary government.
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Why do rightwingers always say "we" when talking about war battles? You know damn well that rah-rah shitheads like you, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and all the pussies on FOX & AM radio would leave the USA if they ever had to fight for it! It's always easy to talk about war, and say bullshit like "Bring 'em on". when you're a gutless, sniveling, rightwing, Republican coward safe & snug in your cozy, drugged-out, delusional worlds.
Many American GI's are still alive and healthy because Cronkite and other major figures took a stand against that war.
Any former GI who has some deluded idea that supporting troops means to keep them in danger is not supportive of the troops but is endangering them.
Cronkite loved this country like few others.
He was not driven by phlegmatic outbursts of emotional hysteria. He was considered the most trusted man in America. You have to prove somethng to lot of people, and he did.
This POS has the blood of over 40,000 Brave Americans on his hands. I pray that he has to face each and every one of my brothers that he helped kill on his way to hell.
i really hope this liberal piece of shit died a horrible death. i hope he's burning in hell right now next to hitler. you fucken liberal traitor. burn in hell you piece of shit. you betrayed american soldiers in vietnam. burn in hell...burn in hell... burn in hell... i hope your family reads this and understands what a liberal piece of shit you are. rest in piss you piece of shit
I doubt that you were a Marine and if you were then how did it feel murdering women and children you gutless pansy. Despite your tough guy act and the worlds biggest military machine backing you up, you still got your asses kicked by a bunch of peasants. Never mind that a fucking lowlife baby killer like you couldn't even tell me what there was to win in Nam. There never was anything to be won except for defense contractors who got rich and dickless asswipes like you got fed into a meat grinder
Go fuck yourself you cockslurping brain damaged abortion survivor. To bad that whore mother of yours that shit you out of her asshole didn't shove that coathanger hard enough into your head to kill you rather then spew you from her STD riddled filthy toilet of a cunt. Tell us again how much of a hero John McCain was for dropping bombs on villages before crashing his plain like the retard he is before getting assfucked by the Vietcong for 5 years when he wasn't chugging their semen. Pussyface.
Well there is an intelligent commentary. Pretty brave when you say stuff like that from the safety of your mental institution. Hey everyone, look what the left has devolved into!
Typical conservative pussy who rolls on his back and starts crying when they find someone they can't bully or shout down into silence. Hey, you love war so much, join the army and get your ass shot off in Iraq since you don't have any balls to get blown off. Of course, depending on your age, you'll probably lie and say that you were in Nam when the truth is that either you got out of combat like GWB or pussied out like Limbaugh and Cheney. What was there to be won in Nam you fuckstick?
What was to be won in Viet Nam was to save the lives of the 1.6 million people who died in communist re-education camps after cowards such as your self pulled funding for the war. A war your Kennedy got us into. I am a veteran clearly unlike you.
As opposed to the estimated 1 to 2 million deaths the war actually caused? Typical conservative moron logic of we have to burn down the orphanage to save the children even though all the kids are inside the building. Youre a pathological liar and sociopathic piece of shit that will say or do anything to justify youre demented beliefs and actions. Kennedy wanted to end the war and all that got him was a bullet in the head from someone like you.
Do you have funeral arrangements Private Pussy? They dont bury cowards like you in Arlington so I hope that you managed to drop dead into the nearest ditch because your family sure as fuck couldnt care enough to kick some dirt over a worthless piece of shit like you. Hey, you hate socialism right? I guess that means youve never received a penny of taxpayer money in medical treatment, eh? I mean, apart from stitching up your bleeding anus after the members of your unit made you their bitch.
Oh and another thing, you say that its all Kennedys fault for the war but on the other hand you argue that the war never should have ended and was a just cause, so which is it you inconsistent conservative scum? You just argued that the war was justified because of your communist bullshit so I thought youd love Kennedy for the war because delusion crackers like you still buy into that propaganda that Vietnam was a war against communism. Youre a pathetic, simple minded moron like GWB.
Typical Republican projection, accuse others of being what you are. You're a fucking dirtbag who likes acting tough but, like all conservatives, you're a pathetic, spineless, cowardly worm disguised as a man. If you're married or have children, understand that they only put up with you in the hopes of inheriting everything you own and selling it once you are finally dead and no longer polluting the world with your presence. My only worry is that there isn't a Hell for you to burn in.
WW2 was a just war, Vietnam was a bullshit war designed to put American taxpayer money into the hands of defense contractors, just like Iraq. Where are those WMDs eh?. Also, you weren't in Nam. Liars like you say that because you think it somehow backs up your demented, jingoistic war mongering and even if you were I don't give a shit. Know why? It's because of your complete moral failing in refusing to fight in not a war but a slaughter of almost 2 million Vietnamese who still kicked you ass.
You are a liar because you could have easily pulled fake info from any number of websites to back up your bullshit claim to have been a Nam vet. I wouldnt put it past you because conservative authoritarian scum like you have this little trick of hiding behind the troops and you think that claiming to have been in Nam will shut down discussion in the same way that the Bush Administration claimed that if you criticized them then you were not supporting the troops. You are a sociopathic liar.
Also, didnt it bother you, at all, voting for GWB when that cowardly little worm got out of Nam because of Daddys connections when chumps like you were shoved feet first into the meat grinder? How about voting for that fucking moron McCain when he was nothing more then an incompetent pilot who got by on his famous family name throughout his whole life. What suckers people like you are.
Furthermore, there are two types of Conservatives, both of which love war, but the ones at the top (Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, OReilly and Rumsfeld) are cowards that refuse to fight in one but dont give a second thought to sending members of other peoples families to their deaths. They wrap themselves in the flag and hide behind the troops like the fucking cockroaches that they are. Then there are the brain drones who line up for the slaughter. So which one are you fuckface?
Oh and "intelligent commentary" is wasted on a know nothing right wing scumbag like you for whom reality and facts are optional. So suck the shit out of my ass since you are what you eat and I'll know you'll ask for seconds because, being a drooling Wingnut retarded fucktstick, you no doubt like being treated like a mushroom by being fed shit and kept in the darkness of your own ignorance. I'll be back later if you enjoy being bitch sapped and want some more. Wanker.
spoken like a true vulgarian. Just out of curiosity, do you kiss your mother with that mouth? I hope nobody has your comments removed. They say far more about you than me. What a sad little person you must be.
Why I find vulgar is that sociopathic scum like you cheer on war, death and destruction and that's because people like you are the type of hypocritical monsters who go around telling people how moral you are while reveling in the murder of human beings because they dont look like you, think like you or speak the same language. Theres no point arguing with you as you are a delusional asswipe for whom facts and reality are optional while having a black pit of emptiness where your soul should be.
A brilliant man, an honest man and above all, a gentleman. To the idiots who commented below, check his biography before you spew your false and poorly-spelled invective.
Walter Kronkite was a communist simpathizer during the Vietnman War, and made us loose the war! I hope he is burning in Hell for all eternity. The only thing Baby Jesus hates more than liberals is liberal jurnalists!
If you are going to Moby-Troll (pretending to be a conservative - while saying stupid things in an effort to discredit legitimate conservatives) you will need to work on your vocabulary, as you talk like a leftist PRETENDING to be a conservative.
I will give partial credit (but not enough to pass this class) for the intentional misspelling of the word "journalists" in an effort to make your intellectual opposition look ignorant and uneducated
Does anyone have the clip or access to the clip when Cronkite is handed "this just in" and accidetly says "What the hell is going on over there" when he realized that the U.S is not going to win the war??
walter cant stand how the evening news has become such a joke, with all the cable 24/7 news, the evening news is just spewing history by the time it comes on.
The only way the war could have been 'won' would have been to send a corps-sized force into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and keep them there. Which is just what Eisenhower concluded after his own private, personal study of the military problems in Indo-China in 1960. He told this to both Kenneddy and Johnson and was ignored.
I doubt it. We were fighting a people who were still in the agricultural age. How can atomic bombs stop people who rushed arms on bicycles? What we should have done is support Ho Chi Minh in his attempt to throw off French colonialism and to keep him independent of Russian and Chinese Communists, like Marshall Tito in Yugoslavia.
Ultimately, we won the war, for Vietnam has gone capitalist. Vitenamese hate the Chinese, a lesson that Lyndon Johnson never learned!
Traitor to the cause of what? World domination by the U.S.??? Vietnam should have been left to them not us! They fought the French for independence remember or that doesn't matter. It's for us to tell them how to run their own country I guess...
This debate's over. Read "Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel" (avail. @ Amazon). Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by (civilian Americans) gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses," and "Our (1968) Tet loses were staggering and a complete surprise. (Gen.) Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat ...."
The Tet Offensive initial attacks stunned allied forces and took them by surprise, but most were quickly contained and beaten back, inflicting massive casualties on the NLF. The exceptions were the fighting that erupted in the old imperial capital of Huế, where intense fighting lasted for a month, and the continuing struggle around the U.S. combat base at Khe Sanh, where fighting continued for two more months. the offensive was a military disaster for communist forces.
History proved him right though, didn't it? He went over there and brought back the TRUTH. So this all goes back to the old saying "the truth hurts". You all are so dogmatic, how you follow the government and what they tell you so blindly. I don't support the war but I support the TROOPS.
Ted Koppel and his network evenning news pals never came out openly and said "Let's go!", but he did so by mostly interviewing pro-war guests, by taking the White House at its words for its goals, and by never addressing the larger querstion of whether America even has the right to invade another country like it owns thr world.
The funny thinig is that I'm sure mos tof those right-wingers who attack Cronkite for editorializing, probaly religiously watch Bill O'Reilly, who does nothing but editirialize!
that war was basically won after 72 and the failure of hte Easter Offensive. all the US had to do was supply the ARVNs and they'd have evolved like South Korea. But the US didn't need to support them after Nixon went to China and the Chinese aligned themselves with the Americans against soviet expansion in the region. It was still a dirty trick to just abandon millions of vietnamese to slave camps though.
andrelebaron 4 months ago
So, joeereed, the dictators are...Johnson? Nixon? McNamara? Not that I am fond of Fonda and the others mentioned, but they didn't create Vietnam, did they?
TheHistoryCloud 6 months ago
Asking cronkite about what he thought of an editorial he read is like asking harrison ford how what he thought of the lines he said playing han solo. totally irrelevant.
mihappy 8 months ago
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Cronkite is a blowhard. When I was growing up he was proclaimed as "fair and reasonable". What we didn't understand that the groups who were parroting this falsehood were the same leftist, Anit-American progressives that Uncle Walter Cronkite identified with. It's unfortunate that he didn't pass away in 1967, he would have done less damage to the United States. Good riddance to this P.O.S.
johnnycaps1 11 months ago
RIP, Walter Cronkite.
ftsjr 1 year ago
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type in youtube search, Walter Cronkite Satan, and watch it. He says that he is glad to sit at the right hand of Satan. I hope that he is burning in Hell with his God.
hounddog183 1 year ago
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type in youtube search, Walter Cronkite Satan, and watch it. He says that he is glad to sit at the right hand of Satan. I hope that he is burning in Hell with his God.
hounddog183 1 year ago
My grandpa met Walter while defending the southern part of Hue during the tet offensive
iPatrolNotCamp 1 year ago
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Walter Cronkite was Rabid dog Traitor who sold out Am Republic for his personal fame and fortune.The dirty dog worked for those who instigated WW1,WW2,Vietnam,Lincoln&Kennedy assassination yet he spoke that he was for a World Govern to prevent these. This SOB was dumb, and confused but a ready mouth piece for World Govern cause the Banker-zion controlled media paid him well. I know he was anti-GOD,anti-Christ, cause the Bible tells that a One World Gov. is terrible for all-enjoy Hell bitch.
exposetruthwolf 1 year ago
@exposetruthwolf hey cretin are yu as ugly as yu are dumb ps god is dead
wreehill 1 year ago
Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to esculate this war.
Best for people to examine the Gulf of Tonkin incident and to hear what Secretary of State Robert McNamara says about this today! About this false flag attack, McNamara says we made a mistake and that, "It never happened!"
JohnnyFaroe 1 year ago
@JohnnyFaroe egg zakkely pearl harbor and 911 as well just like the reichstag fire
wreehill 1 year ago
VietNam wasn't even close to Communism. Remember Communism only exists in theory. We've been raised to believe that Democracy is the best and only answer.
rarebreed681 1 year ago
mannnnnnnnnnnnnn, fuck dis guy! We won like every battle in Vietnam. How'd we lose? cuz he sayz so?
FREAKNIZZLE100 1 year ago
@FREAKNIZZLE100 You're fucking stupid.
itscowski 1 year ago
@FREAKNIZZLE100 Your point being? America may have won every conventional battle against the PAVN, but it didn't matter. The Vietnamise had an entirely different mentality about death to the US, to quote Ho Chi Mihn "You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it". Also every conventional battle was on PAVN terms they always chose were it was and when it was.
DANNYBARE2 11 months ago
vietnam was a war fought n the same concept as the korean war, it was a mistake by the preseident that cost alot of lives, based on the american idea of themselves, it has happened again and will continue to do so, it is the americans that need to change to stop this, not one man.
1988052420 2 years ago
@1988052420 yeah i completely agree with you, and as Americans we like to play the blame game, so i doubt we will ever change our viewpoints about policing the world.
IIIArrow711 1 year ago
My dad was in the Army. He was a door gunner in Vietnam from December 1969-November 1970. He died of Agent Orange related lung/brain cancer on March 20, 2008. Vietnam was a WASTE!!!
10Dec1971 2 years ago 15
Sorry to hear about your Dad. I hope he's in Jahnnah.
eviltreemonster 2 years ago
@10Dec1971
No it wasn't a waste. Every american soldier fighting against comunism all around the globe built a step to our liberty, in Eastern Europe. He fought for our liberties, for our future. Soldiers of my country are fighting right now in Afghanistan against talibans and they fought in Irak too. Some are dying and some people are saying here in Romania that this is a waste. Simply you must go there to fight for the future of humanity. My mother died of cancer two weeks ago. It's hard...
cojocarescu 1 year ago
@cojocarescu why fight for democracy, what's wrong with communism?
Hooli020 1 year ago
It's the New World Order lick spittle
Walter Benedict Arnold Cronkite!
SummerInJuly 2 years ago
I'm looking for a video clip from Vietnam where a reporter is interviewing a soldier and an explosion is close by. The soldier doesn't even flinch while speaking. I don't know who is interviewing the soldier and I don't remember what they were talking about, I just remember the broken down look on this man's face and how he was desensitized. He didn't stop talking and he didn't flinch. The interviewer dropped down a bit and covered his head. This man just stood there. Incredible.
piepermatthew 2 years ago
Walter and his leftist advocacy journalism prolonged the war causing the deaths of millions. It marked the beginning of the end for American journalism which is now dead. He has the blood of many people on his hands.
fishinwflies 2 years ago
Hey, fishinwflies, why dont you tell us what there was to be won in Nam without sounding like the fucking moron that you are by saying it was to stop Communism when you LOST Vietnam and, HEY, communism didn't take over the USA although I'm sure you'll say it did because a half african american man became President while telling us that he's a Marxist, communist, Muslim, terrorist sympathizer who eats arugula with Dijon mustard and was born in Kenya. Go back to watching Fox News dipshit.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Cronkite was anything but an un-biased newsman. When he came back from Vietnam and announced the war was a "stalemate" this truly had an affect on the public's opinion of Vietnam.
Not a "fair and balanced" journalist in my eyes.
UncleJeffreySpuds 2 years ago
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mookixox 2 years ago
I was in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The Viet Cong was taken to the cleaners and not heard from again except in small squad size engagements.
Read, "A Viet Cong Memoir" by Truong Nhu Tang, the former Minister of Justice. For those that believe that Walter Cronkite was correct and that the War protest movement wasn't controlled by the Communist of Vietnam this book will be an eye opener.
SFvet 2 years ago
What did WE learn from WALTER ?
UH, NO THAT IS DEFINITLY NOT THE WAY IT IS. And brother, you ain't no genius. The difference between current reporters and Walter is that they now have nice legs and faces etc. Good by Walter and good riddence
joeereed 2 years ago
piss off you commie traitor bastard! I hope that someday true Americans will give you your due, and I do not mean the so called americans who put a red in the WH
pigmanobvious 2 years ago
Is author sifting thru these comments, and will mine be deemed worthy to post, or too opinionated? Lets see if author betters the "state run" drive-by consensus media and allows my posts? Yet the unusual thoughtfulness of these posts may show that there is method in his madness; I don't see F bombs & illegible posts here, for SOME reason... G' nite.
ednorandrewrowe 2 years ago
Because of his anti-sovereignty beliefs, perhaps he's really "the most dangerous man in America" As he said in his own words referring to one-world government, "I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan"
Tilbily 2 years ago
joeereed, you're a slithering piece of shit who probably murdered and raped children in vietnam
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joeereed 2 years ago
Pierre,
God only knows what a fantasy perception you have of the Vietnam War. You still don't get it. It was manufactured by reporters who only wanted the US out of S. Vietnam and leave this worthy ally to the communists. If you ever do start to understand how the media manipulated the news you will be numbed. But I think we are past that peril now. Now we have multiple news sources. The day of Uncle Walter are no more. Plus the public is more aware now.
joeereed 2 years ago
Looking back, we had General Giap, Mark Felt (disgruntled CIA oportunist) Jane Fonda-pseudo Marxist, Tom Hayden (SDS/radical student terrorist) , John Kerry (political hack), Walter Cronkite-the wise, Ed Kennedy, etc, etc.
Dictators may never have it so good again. My god, what a group.
joeereed 2 years ago
You've lived 59 years on this planet and still lack understanding.
That is truly remarkable. The world is not a Hollywood movie. It is not about Good and Evil and Good always triumphing over evil. In the case of the Vietnam war there was no Good and Evil (as there rarely is). It was a gray area and a HUGE mistake for the USA. You may see it differently (by insulting those who also came to this conclusion) but these are not their failings. They're YOUR failings. You lack understanding.
PierreElliottTrudeau 2 years ago
This 'gray area' theme has become a bit of a mantra:
Terrorist holding severed head: Gray
Navy seal rescues mates: also gray
North Korea: Gray area to avoid
U.S.A.: Gray that pays well
So it's a gray world, and how convenient for the liberal retards. They no longer need to think, there is nothing to discuss.
They are now completely free to lecture the 59 year olds who are plagued by illusions of colour, and remember a world where the good guy may not have always won,, but he did usually try.
jy768 2 years ago
God, that is well spoken, jy768 ! And this section of comments is so above-youtube average! The current political correctness / moral relativism that OK's Dr. Tiller sucking out 9 mo. old babes' brains and, in his words, "crushing their skulls in a manner similar to a lobster shell" to withdraw thru undilated cervix reminds me of the nutty American / Hindu amalgamation devotions from Sai Baba sent to me by a CA relative. Nobody responsible for nothing, and only error is thinking reality is real
ednorandrewrowe 2 years ago
jy768, So Well Spoken ! This liberal stuff I believed so strongly until the army math research center fell on van full of fertilizer & killed a fellow U.W. employee of my father was FOR REAL, and in its hyped up ramped up version, gives "Choice" to a Dr. Tiller, who sucks the brains from 9 month old babies and in his own words, crushes their heads "like a lobster shell" to remove baby from undilated cervix...Sex and feeling are God, conviction is suspect, and anyone with a sincere belief a hack
ednorandrewrowe 2 years ago
Don't you just love the Rush Limbaugh'-type clowns in the world? These idiot do not even realize the reason America lost the war in Viet Nam: The Chinese. I think Dr. Tiller sucked the brains out of these individuals.
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nwhwy 2 years ago
Lets say you were in Nam, it explains your hostility towards anyone who criticized that war. Growing up you were suckered in believing how glorious war was by your cowardly relatives who probably spent all of WW2 cleaning shitters on Army bases. You saw how in movies and TV, the veterans of WW2 were revered as heroes for fighting back the Japanese and Nazis. But it's always burned your ass that you never got the heroes welcome that you craved which is why you shit on Walter Cronkite.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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I'm going to just put you on ignore because Cronkite has been dead now for a few weeks and I really couldn't give a shit anymore about what some conservative sociopaths or burnout Nam vets have to say about a war that history has recorded as being lost and that's because there never was anything to win in the first place. Deny the facts all you like, history has shown you to be profoundly wrong.
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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Losers like you are why you lost NAM to a nation of people with substandard equipment and who are on average 5 feet tall.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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Typical conservative, blaming others for your own failure as a person. Oh BooHoo, it wasnt my fault, it was those mean liberals who were half way around the world, it was the politicians, its was my commanding officer. Gee, havent heard that before from a conservative chickenshit lowlife. Call the fucking whaaaambulance. Hey, wheres your medals you dickless pansy? I bet you never got any since you probably shit yourself any time someone farted in your presence.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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The military is used to thin out the heard of braindead cattle, like yourself, who would otherwise be pumping gas for a living. I bet you used to blow your superior officers so that you could stay at the base you massive homo pussy. "Sweet pants"? I bet that's what the other officers call your son when he's in the shower and checking out all the other cops while tugging on his millimeter peter and pretending he's washing it. I bet he gets two big black cocks in both pipes every night. Loser.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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Yeah, say that to the 1 to 2 million people who were killed in NAM by fucking cowards like you and John McCain who destroyed whole villages, killing women and children, by shooting them up and bombing them with napalm. Also, why do you give a shit if people were killed on 9/11, according to right wing plebs like you New York is filled with nothing but comie pinko liberals. You couldn't care less about those people, they're just another excuse for animals like you to kill and destroy.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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Yeah, I'm sure your son faces plenty of gangbangers on his knees every day while they shove his nightstick up his ass that's probably right red from all the pounding it gets on a daily basis. Hope your medical insurance covers you when you break your back trying to suck your own cock because I doubt that even crack whores would lower themselves to let you fuck them for the two seconds that it takes you to cum. You make Forrest Gump look like fucking Albert Einstein you cum chugging douchebag.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
Your son? You sure about that because I doubt a limp dick like you could get it up unless it was for a 12 year old Vietnamese boy. I think you got suckered into supporting the kid fathered by whatever homeless person your whore was nailing behind your back. I bet shed stick her tongue in his filthy asshole before coming home and giving you a nice big kiss. You must have money because no woman would spread their legs for your shriveled, one inch fuckstick unless they were getting paid.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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I also guarantee that hes not your son as it doesnt sound like he comes off a low IQ failure like you. If he is your kid Im sure hes probably a closet homo who only worked for the coast guard so he could be alone at sea with a bunch of men who would play The Village People while he kneeled down and was used as their cum dumpster to his delight. The only reason hed work as a cop was so that he could bust trannies and get sucked off and assfucked in his patrol car.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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It seems that YouTube has diabled their ignore function, probably because they like seeing me fisting your lily white candy ass. "If this country is attacked"? Which country is that you senile cockslurper? Canada doesn't go around bombing brown people around the world which is why the US got whacked on 9/11 and before that it right wing scum like you at Oklahoma who were afarid that the Government was going to take away the guns that you need to overcompensate for your tiny little cocks. Douche.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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I don't have a sister so you must be projecting the time you caught your son doing that in his mothers clothes while also shoving her 12 inch black dildo up his gaping asshole and watching your gay porn tapes that you have stashed that trunk you have in the basement also containing the letter of dishonorable discharge you recieved because you got the hiccups and chewed off your superior officers cock. Also, John Wayne and you have something in common, you both pretend to be soldiers and real men
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
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Im referencing black cocks because I found your sons website and he seems to like having a lot of them shoved into his mouth and asshole. Oh look, heres a video where his mother sucks the cum out of his glazed shithole before spitting it in that jar of mayonnaise that you use on your sandwiches. You were probably wondering why your sandwiches have tasted so good lately. Probably reminds you of all the 10 year old Vietnamese boys you sucked off in the NAM!
CTM1978 2 years ago
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I bet your parents, who were brother and sister, must be ashamed to have shat a brainless right wing fucking moron like you into the world. They most likely gave up trying to abort you after shoving that coat hanger into your brain which didnt kill you since your higher motor functions are controlled by your ass. When you were dragged into the army they probably hoped that it would have made you a man instead of the Agent Orange saturated, mentally handicapped, troglodyte that you are today.
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nwhwy 2 years ago
@jy768 lol if anything its the conservatives who started the who "RealPolitik" mantra of relative power, rather than right and wrong. That was under Nixon
jerzy862 11 months ago
@jy768 soz for the comment revival but so you seriously remember a time when the world was not gray?
Wilks228 10 months ago
@joeereed HEY ASHHOLE what redneck cretin infested hillbilly hole u inhabit
wreehill 1 year ago
Years from now, history will judge Cronkite by the facts. He was simply an incompetent news reporter.
joeereed 2 years ago
The US media was incompetent in televising the Vietnam War. They did not know what they were doing. Walter had two full years of college completed. Imagine. Two full years. I hope he doesn't run into General Abrams !! IYKWIM
joeereed 2 years ago
hey heartsofspace, you want 8 more years of that tard Bush - you fking moron - Bush is the reason this country is in the shape that its in.
polygonkilla 2 years ago
God bless him!
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago
It's true, what Walter said just before he died of polio: Barack Obama is an arrogant, two-faced, power-mad, tax-and-spend, socialist son of a bitch...Rush Limbaugh for President!
heartsofspace 2 years ago
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(Part 2) and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremberg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary." [Walter Cronkite from his 1996 book: "A Reporter's Life" ]
SummerInJuly 2 years ago
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(Part 1) "If we are to avoid that catastrophe (nuclear devastation), a system of world order - preferably a system of world government - is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago...When we finally come to our senses
SummerInJuly 2 years ago
Liar.
Coleburg 2 years ago
There will always be controversy over Walter Cronkite's views of the Tet Offensive.
mkl62 2 years ago
you're glad someone is dead? Do you consider yourself a Christian or what?
PeterPiper00 2 years ago
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glad this shit bag is dead!!! LMFAO!!!! i only wish it was a grizzly death.
kishaba1980 2 years ago
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Walter was a propagandist, Old School. He fought hard, long and dirty for his causes.
His chair and legacy is now appropriately occupied and tended by Katie Couric. with her pages full of notebooks,,
Now Walter's a legend. Every two bit celebrity who dies is a legend. big deal.
Saint Teddy is next. He can thank Walter for the soft shoe at Chappaquiddick.
Now say something nice about the departed. He had a great voice... Liars usually do!
jy768 2 years ago
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All you stupid fuckn pukes that think the war is so fuckn great, grab up a motherfuckn rifle, and get your dumb fuckn asses over in sand NIGGER land. We don't need you here.Put your ill gotten money where your cocksuckn mouff is and get the fuck out and kill some sand NIGGERS! Don't forget to suck suma dat Camels cock you cowardly little pussies.
kevsart 2 years ago
Congratulations on making yourself appear the feckless little turd you must be.
Mat2001uk 2 years ago
Cronkite got us OUT of the illegal, unjustified Vietnam War. There are kids alive today because their dads and granddads were brought HOME from Vietnam instead of dying in a god-forsaken, steaming jungle. Too bad we didn''t have a Cronkite today to question the Iraq debacle - the Vietnam of the 21st century - before 4,600 brave US troops died there for no reason whatsoever other than to settle Bush's personal vendetta with Saddam. Our troops are not PAWNS to be used like toy soldiers.
Greenandscaly 2 years ago 3
i wish he did get us out the war. The war was to go on for another5 years and 30 k americans dead after he made his famous editorial.
laurensadriaanse 2 years ago 2
what in hell is wrong with you people? Liberal piece of shit? Burn in hell? Nice compassion and respect for others' point of views. This man saw the truth of the situation, which was that the military top brass fabricated whatever numbers were convenient to them to continue feeding the war machine. HE has blood on his hands? What about the people that prolonged this ridiculous, wrongheaded, and damaging war for years, despite the clear knowledge that we were in the wrong, and losing?
worksong 2 years ago 2
Walter Cronkite was a recipient of the Norman Cousin's award for world governance. He did not believe in the sovereignty of the United States. He advocated planetary government.
SummerInJuly 2 years ago
True. He was tired of war. He wanted global democratic government. Not global tyrannical government.
columbusclipper 2 years ago
We decimated the VC during TET and had them on the ropes till Walter got on the air and stabbed America in the back.
su50 2 years ago
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Why do rightwingers always say "we" when talking about war battles? You know damn well that rah-rah shitheads like you, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and all the pussies on FOX & AM radio would leave the USA if they ever had to fight for it! It's always easy to talk about war, and say bullshit like "Bring 'em on". when you're a gutless, sniveling, rightwing, Republican coward safe & snug in your cozy, drugged-out, delusional worlds.
HNK222 2 years ago
No, his lies helped prolong it.
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JRotten9802 2 years ago
Many American GI's are still alive and healthy because Cronkite and other major figures took a stand against that war.
Any former GI who has some deluded idea that supporting troops means to keep them in danger is not supportive of the troops but is endangering them.
Cronkite loved this country like few others.
He was not driven by phlegmatic outbursts of emotional hysteria. He was considered the most trusted man in America. You have to prove somethng to lot of people, and he did.
maxhnb 2 years ago
This POS did incalculable damage to the U.S. He shouldn't even be remembered.
jy768 2 years ago
where do you get your facts? "incalculable damage???"
Chromatype 2 years ago
This POS has the blood of over 40,000 Brave Americans on his hands. I pray that he has to face each and every one of my brothers that he helped kill on his way to hell.
LewWaters 2 years ago
Yep, Walter Cronkite's lies got us into Vietnam, amirite
megalman1 2 years ago
i really hope this liberal piece of shit died a horrible death. i hope he's burning in hell right now next to hitler. you fucken liberal traitor. burn in hell you piece of shit. you betrayed american soldiers in vietnam. burn in hell...burn in hell... burn in hell... i hope your family reads this and understands what a liberal piece of shit you are. rest in piss you piece of shit
mookybarron 2 years ago
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JRotten9802 2 years ago
mookybarron, go back to fucking your mother in the ass while watching Fox News and polishing your gun you inbred retarded mongrel.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
I doubt that you were a Marine and if you were then how did it feel murdering women and children you gutless pansy. Despite your tough guy act and the worlds biggest military machine backing you up, you still got your asses kicked by a bunch of peasants. Never mind that a fucking lowlife baby killer like you couldn't even tell me what there was to win in Nam. There never was anything to be won except for defense contractors who got rich and dickless asswipes like you got fed into a meat grinder
CTM1978 2 years ago
Hey CTM1978, you want to see a real dickless asswipe, go say that to a marines face then look in the mirror at the emergency room.
fishinwflies 2 years ago
Go fuck yourself you cockslurping brain damaged abortion survivor. To bad that whore mother of yours that shit you out of her asshole didn't shove that coathanger hard enough into your head to kill you rather then spew you from her STD riddled filthy toilet of a cunt. Tell us again how much of a hero John McCain was for dropping bombs on villages before crashing his plain like the retard he is before getting assfucked by the Vietcong for 5 years when he wasn't chugging their semen. Pussyface.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Well there is an intelligent commentary. Pretty brave when you say stuff like that from the safety of your mental institution. Hey everyone, look what the left has devolved into!
fishinwflies 2 years ago
Typical conservative pussy who rolls on his back and starts crying when they find someone they can't bully or shout down into silence. Hey, you love war so much, join the army and get your ass shot off in Iraq since you don't have any balls to get blown off. Of course, depending on your age, you'll probably lie and say that you were in Nam when the truth is that either you got out of combat like GWB or pussied out like Limbaugh and Cheney. What was there to be won in Nam you fuckstick?
CTM1978 2 years ago
What was to be won in Viet Nam was to save the lives of the 1.6 million people who died in communist re-education camps after cowards such as your self pulled funding for the war. A war your Kennedy got us into. I am a veteran clearly unlike you.
fishinwflies 2 years ago
As opposed to the estimated 1 to 2 million deaths the war actually caused? Typical conservative moron logic of we have to burn down the orphanage to save the children even though all the kids are inside the building. Youre a pathological liar and sociopathic piece of shit that will say or do anything to justify youre demented beliefs and actions. Kennedy wanted to end the war and all that got him was a bullet in the head from someone like you.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
Do you have funeral arrangements Private Pussy? They dont bury cowards like you in Arlington so I hope that you managed to drop dead into the nearest ditch because your family sure as fuck couldnt care enough to kick some dirt over a worthless piece of shit like you. Hey, you hate socialism right? I guess that means youve never received a penny of taxpayer money in medical treatment, eh? I mean, apart from stitching up your bleeding anus after the members of your unit made you their bitch.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Oh and another thing, you say that its all Kennedys fault for the war but on the other hand you argue that the war never should have ended and was a just cause, so which is it you inconsistent conservative scum? You just argued that the war was justified because of your communist bullshit so I thought youd love Kennedy for the war because delusion crackers like you still buy into that propaganda that Vietnam was a war against communism. Youre a pathetic, simple minded moron like GWB.
CTM1978 2 years ago
I feel sorry for you. You are delusional and quite disturbed. Seek help.
fishinwflies 2 years ago
Typical Republican projection, accuse others of being what you are. You're a fucking dirtbag who likes acting tough but, like all conservatives, you're a pathetic, spineless, cowardly worm disguised as a man. If you're married or have children, understand that they only put up with you in the hopes of inheriting everything you own and selling it once you are finally dead and no longer polluting the world with your presence. My only worry is that there isn't a Hell for you to burn in.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
WW2 was a just war, Vietnam was a bullshit war designed to put American taxpayer money into the hands of defense contractors, just like Iraq. Where are those WMDs eh?. Also, you weren't in Nam. Liars like you say that because you think it somehow backs up your demented, jingoistic war mongering and even if you were I don't give a shit. Know why? It's because of your complete moral failing in refusing to fight in not a war but a slaughter of almost 2 million Vietnamese who still kicked you ass.
CTM1978 2 years ago
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nwhwy 2 years ago
You are a liar because you could have easily pulled fake info from any number of websites to back up your bullshit claim to have been a Nam vet. I wouldnt put it past you because conservative authoritarian scum like you have this little trick of hiding behind the troops and you think that claiming to have been in Nam will shut down discussion in the same way that the Bush Administration claimed that if you criticized them then you were not supporting the troops. You are a sociopathic liar.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Also, didnt it bother you, at all, voting for GWB when that cowardly little worm got out of Nam because of Daddys connections when chumps like you were shoved feet first into the meat grinder? How about voting for that fucking moron McCain when he was nothing more then an incompetent pilot who got by on his famous family name throughout his whole life. What suckers people like you are.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Furthermore, there are two types of Conservatives, both of which love war, but the ones at the top (Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, OReilly and Rumsfeld) are cowards that refuse to fight in one but dont give a second thought to sending members of other peoples families to their deaths. They wrap themselves in the flag and hide behind the troops like the fucking cockroaches that they are. Then there are the brain drones who line up for the slaughter. So which one are you fuckface?
CTM1978 2 years ago
Oh and "intelligent commentary" is wasted on a know nothing right wing scumbag like you for whom reality and facts are optional. So suck the shit out of my ass since you are what you eat and I'll know you'll ask for seconds because, being a drooling Wingnut retarded fucktstick, you no doubt like being treated like a mushroom by being fed shit and kept in the darkness of your own ignorance. I'll be back later if you enjoy being bitch sapped and want some more. Wanker.
CTM1978 2 years ago
spoken like a true vulgarian. Just out of curiosity, do you kiss your mother with that mouth? I hope nobody has your comments removed. They say far more about you than me. What a sad little person you must be.
fishinwflies 2 years ago
Why I find vulgar is that sociopathic scum like you cheer on war, death and destruction and that's because people like you are the type of hypocritical monsters who go around telling people how moral you are while reveling in the murder of human beings because they dont look like you, think like you or speak the same language. Theres no point arguing with you as you are a delusional asswipe for whom facts and reality are optional while having a black pit of emptiness where your soul should be.
CTM1978 2 years ago
Clearly, Walter, you pissed off a bunch of assholes. I know of no better tribute. May the same be said of me when I am gone!
spiderbaby1958 2 years ago
A man who spoke his mind. A man who gained the respect of many by voicing their concerns over US. geopolitics.
"And that's the way it is."
rebelingray 2 years ago
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Now that he's dead, it has to be said: Walter Kronkite was a typical leftwing yo-yo, but even he knew Barack Obama is full of shit.
heartsofspace 2 years ago
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Another scumbag liberal is dead. Yipee.
gypjet 2 years ago
I quite agree!
six2112 2 years ago
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His legacy is one of cowardice and concession. "And that's the way it is."
celtmarcid 2 years ago
well said
six2112 2 years ago
A brilliant man, an honest man and above all, a gentleman. To the idiots who commented below, check his biography before you spew your false and poorly-spelled invective.
Z1Z2Z5Z4 2 years ago
My, aren't you the cute little intellectual! A turd is dead today, yipee.
gypjet 2 years ago
Walter Kronkite was a communist simpathizer during the Vietnman War, and made us loose the war! I hope he is burning in Hell for all eternity. The only thing Baby Jesus hates more than liberals is liberal jurnalists!
Wanda4DecentValues 2 years ago
Wanda,
If you are going to Moby-Troll (pretending to be a conservative - while saying stupid things in an effort to discredit legitimate conservatives) you will need to work on your vocabulary, as you talk like a leftist PRETENDING to be a conservative.
I will give partial credit (but not enough to pass this class) for the intentional misspelling of the word "journalists" in an effort to make your intellectual opposition look ignorant and uneducated
Final Grade: F+
Course credits earned: 0
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GasPipeJimmy 2 years ago
May you be in god's loving hands now.
rockee06 2 years ago
God bless you Mr. Cronkite!!
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago
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He's now face to face with the
Vietnam Vets he helped to kill. Hope they give him his due before he goes to hell.
kevinw22 2 years ago
I hope that some day Cronkite and Arnold are both remembered for what they were.
Traitors!
pigmanobvious 2 years ago
Does anyone have the clip or access to the clip when Cronkite is handed "this just in" and accidetly says "What the hell is going on over there" when he realized that the U.S is not going to win the war??
tmvphil413 2 years ago
R.I.P.
Walter Cronkite
1916-2009
orionpirates 2 years ago
It's reported only yesterday (19th June 2009) that Walter Cronkite was gravely ill. He's 92.
azzabop 2 years ago 3
nice prophecie!!!
TheDotComKid84 2 years ago
how did the tet offensive influence nationalism movement in vietnam at that time???
ZoEe275 3 years ago
walter cant stand how the evening news has become such a joke, with all the cable 24/7 news, the evening news is just spewing history by the time it comes on.
mikemoair 3 years ago
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What a traitor.
This war could have been won, but wally comes out and calls defeat in a massive tet offensive victory.
TravisB19 4 years ago
The only way the war could have been 'won' would have been to send a corps-sized force into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and keep them there. Which is just what Eisenhower concluded after his own private, personal study of the military problems in Indo-China in 1960. He told this to both Kenneddy and Johnson and was ignored.
breezeman199 4 years ago
wow! I feel sorry for you Travis. To win a war, can we get more stupid than that?
patocorona 3 years ago
Yes we can. Stupidity would be to not fight a war to gain freedom or to defend ourselves.
bluemax79 3 years ago
Defend ourselves against who? The Vietnamese? Were they on their way over here?
Rattlesnake269 2 years ago
Don't misinterpret what I wrote. If people ask for help in defending freedom we should give it to them.
bluemax79 2 years ago
The only way the war could have been won would be to drop an A-Bomb on Vietnam.
TheJuggaler 3 years ago
I doubt it. We were fighting a people who were still in the agricultural age. How can atomic bombs stop people who rushed arms on bicycles? What we should have done is support Ho Chi Minh in his attempt to throw off French colonialism and to keep him independent of Russian and Chinese Communists, like Marshall Tito in Yugoslavia.
Ultimately, we won the war, for Vietnam has gone capitalist. Vitenamese hate the Chinese, a lesson that Lyndon Johnson never learned!
BuddyNovinski 2 years ago
Werd. You're right.
I dont know why you got 7 thumbs down.
The Commies didnt have shit left after that offensive. They couldnt raid all of our positions.
ARMYMan92 3 years ago
Traitor to the cause of what? World domination by the U.S.??? Vietnam should have been left to them not us! They fought the French for independence remember or that doesn't matter. It's for us to tell them how to run their own country I guess...
hamshow 4 years ago 3
Hook'em,Walter!!
bigroy38 4 years ago
This debate's over. Read "Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel" (avail. @ Amazon). Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by (civilian Americans) gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses," and "Our (1968) Tet loses were staggering and a complete surprise. (Gen.) Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat ...."
freebird1100 4 years ago
The Tet Offensive initial attacks stunned allied forces and took them by surprise, but most were quickly contained and beaten back, inflicting massive casualties on the NLF. The exceptions were the fighting that erupted in the old imperial capital of Huế, where intense fighting lasted for a month, and the continuing struggle around the U.S. combat base at Khe Sanh, where fighting continued for two more months. the offensive was a military disaster for communist forces.
youngmarklevin 4 years ago 6
History proved him right though, didn't it? He went over there and brought back the TRUTH. So this all goes back to the old saying "the truth hurts". You all are so dogmatic, how you follow the government and what they tell you so blindly. I don't support the war but I support the TROOPS.
WBBugleBoy 4 years ago
Look at Iraq for example.
Ted Koppel and his network evenning news pals never came out openly and said "Let's go!", but he did so by mostly interviewing pro-war guests, by taking the White House at its words for its goals, and by never addressing the larger querstion of whether America even has the right to invade another country like it owns thr world.
Webins 4 years ago
Also, there is no such thing as a competely fair news media.
If he had stayed quiet, Cromkite would still be editorializing-by-silence, in favor of the war.
News organizatyions editorialize all the time, not with words, but by the type of stories they cover, guests interviewed, and questions asked...
Webins 4 years ago
The funny thinig is that I'm sure mos tof those right-wingers who attack Cronkite for editorializing, probaly religiously watch Bill O'Reilly, who does nothing but editirialize!
Webins 4 years ago
Yep.
Trudeau790 4 years ago