Cronkite Wants U.S. Forces Out of Iraq Now (Murtha Predicts Pullout)

Associated Press ^ | Jan. 15, 2006 | DAVID BAUDER

[kellynla]

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., contends that political pressure will prompt the administration to pull most troops from Iraq this year.

"I think we could have been able to retire with honor," he said. "In fact, I think we can retire with honor anyway."

Cronkite has spoken out against the Iraq war in the past, saying in 2004 that Americans weren't any safer because of the invasion.

Cronkite, who is hard of hearing and walks haltingly, jokingly said that "I'm standing by if they want me" to anchor the "CBS Evening News." CBS is still searching for a permanent successor to Dan Rather, who replaced Cronkite in March 1981.

"Twenty-four hours after I told CBS News that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday I was already regretting it and I've regretted it every day since," he said. "It's too good a job for me to have given it up the way that I did."

[SAJ]

Cheer up, Walter. Merck's new anti-senility drug is in Phase II trials. It won't be too long now.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Murtha predicts?? pullout.

There were over 20 brigades in Iraq before Thanksgiving, there are 18 now, and there will be 15 by mid February.

Kinda like predicting rain during the monsoon.

[inkling]

I also want US Forces out of Iraq by the end of the year. They're needed in Iran!

(I doubt that's what Cronkite and Murtha are asking for...)

[HOTTIEBOY]

Alzheimer's kicking in.

[sure_fine]

Cronkite would also like to start having regular bowel movements too

[Clara Lou]

Walter Cronkite is highly qualified to have an opinion. That's about all he's highly qualified for.

[Fiddlstix]

Memo To Walter Cronkite:

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[grobdriver]

Oh - Cronkite wants it?
Well, let's pack our bags, then!

[proud_yank]

I also want US Forces out of Iraq by the end of the year. They're needed in Iran!

LOL,I think there are enough to finish both jobs! Meanwhile, the US wants Walt to STFU!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

all murtha needs to do is cut off funding for the war ... but he's too big a pansy, as well as shrillary, etal, to suggest such

[Steveone]

Old Cronkite just won't move to Cuba where he belongs.

[Frank T]

"Then-President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told a White House aide after that, 'If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.'"

But you gain Paddy Buchanan? ;-)

"The best time to have made a similar statement about Iraq came after Hurricane Katrina, he said."

This is Cronkite basically admitting that his assessment of the Tet Offensive was not objective and rational - relative to the situation on the ground - but rather a political statement of the war overall, and, I gather, war against Communist enemies.

The reason he did damage to the war cause was because many viewers believed that he was speaking factually, that militarily, Tet was a defeat. What a con! This is how Dems have operated for a long time.

[tx_eggman]

Cronkite would also like to start having regular bowel movements too

At this point in his life his bowel movements are the only thing he's got going that have anything to do with 60 minutes.

[massgopguy]

He is regular. Every morning he has one at six o'clock. He wakes up at 7:30.

[SkyPilot]

I watched Cronkite on Larry King Live once.

The conversation turned to the "religious right" and Cronkite turned downright nasty and venomous. Then he went off on Christians in general, and his eyes were full of disgust and anger.

[Flightdeck]

Quit embarrassing our alma mater, Cronkite.

[MNJohnnie]

Cronkite, still criminally stupid after all these years.

[TheGeezer]

I did not trust Cronkite then and I do not trust him now. He betrayed America and the South Vietnamese by calling the TET offensive a defeat for America when it was not and propelled the Democrat-controlled congress into defunding Vietnamization which was working successfully. He misled America because Americans thought he was trustworthy. He was not then, and he is not now.

[River_Wrangler]

Alzheimer's kicking in.

It kicked in 40 years ago.