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Perhaps, just perhaps, someone will finally investigate the tragic misreporting by Walter Cronkite with regard to the 1968 Tet offensive.\u00a0 The following article is spot on.\u00a0 I was in Vietnam in 1968 and as a Vietnamese Linguist assigned to the NSA, I know that this is accurate:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0215\/colon021715.php3<\/a><\/p>\n

What makes this so sad is that for years Walter Cronkite was considered to be the most trusted name in news.\u00a0 It is easy to be trusted, if like Brian Williams, no one ever bothers to fact check what you are reporting.\u00a0 I can\u2019t begin to tell you how many times I have met people who bragged about protesting the Vietnam War.\u00a0 I have sadly met many Vietnam Veterans who also thought we were caught in a quagmire we couldn\u2019t win.\u00a0 Walter Cronkite convinced a nation of something that was simply untrue.\u00a0 That lie is perpetuated to this day.\u00a0 What the anti-war protestors refuse to consider is the following two questions.<\/p>\n

Would Vietnam be better or worse off today if we had stayed the course and forced North Vietnam to honor the peace treaty<\/p>\n

Compare South Korea to South Vietnam<\/p>\n

What happened in South Vietnam and Cambodia after we left?<\/p>\n

Millions of\u00a0people were confined to re-education camps for years.<\/p>\n

An estimated 3 million people were slaughtered in Cambodia.<\/p>\n

Explain to me why this was a good result!<\/p>\n

No one ever asks these questions.\u00a0 Instead they gloat over stopping the war with the na\u00efve notion that this was followed by peace and love.\u00a0 Granted the Vietnam War was terrible.\u00a0 Granted a lot of civilians died.\u00a0 But the most unethical thing to do in a war is to lose it to pure evil.\u00a0 There is, as Douglas McArthur once said, \u201cno substitute for victory.\u201d \u00a0It is bad enough that we abandoned South Vietnam under any circumstances, \u00a0To surrender on the verge of victory, because of bald-faced lies is the ultimate disgrace.<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of the Democratic congress, the United States abandoned South Vietnam with no regard to the consequences.\u00a0 They threw the sacrifices of the more than 55,000 Americans who died there on the scrap heap of history.\u00a0 This decision was based on blatant falsehoods and misrepresentations. None worse than the irresponsible reporting by Walter Cronkite.<\/p>\n

It is time someone told the awful truth.\u00a0 Walter lied and a whole lot of people died.\u00a0 The most trusted man in news is someone we should never have trusted at all.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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