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Cronkite's rant
Washington Times ^ | 9/11/02 | Greg Pierce

Posted on 09/11/2002 8:48:06 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:57:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, in an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live," blamed the September 11 attacks on errant U.S. foreign policy and world poverty, the Media Research Center's Brent Baker reports at www.mediaresearch.org.

"Cronkite said he believes 'very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened,' before he asserted that anti-U.S. terrorism is caused by 'this great division between the rich and the poor in the world.' The people of the world 'who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education,' Cronkite warned, 'are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly.'


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 911blame; richandpoor
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To: Barnacle
That's a Clinton Classic Image, that's been posted here many times on different threads.
41 posted on 09/11/2002 3:01:03 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Just another leftist/liberal/socialist/communist of the blame America first crowd with a large case of diarrhea of the mouth. Stupid old goat. Go back into your coma Walter, no one gives a rats @$$ what you have to say.
42 posted on 09/11/2002 3:04:26 PM PDT by RetiredArmy
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