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KB2GSD says US needs to get out of IraqFamed CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD, says that it is time for the United States to get out of Iraq. Amateur Radio Newsline's Fred Vobbe, W8HDU, has the details: Retired CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD, says that the war in Iraq was a mistake and that we should have gotten out a long time ago. The 90-year-old Cronkite was in San Jose, California on Friday, February 23rd addressing the city's Commonwealth Club. Later, in an interview with the local CBS affiliate, he weighed-in on the situation in Iraq saying the entire war there is a disaster and the earlier we get out the better. It was in 1968, when the then CBS Evening News anchorman did a tour of Vietnam, and came back highly critical of that war. His declaration that the Vietnam War was un-winnable led to such a shift in public opinion against the war that then President Lyndon Johnson was quoted as having said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America." But that was then and this is 2007. And when asked if his strong words against the Iraq War would have the same impact as his words against the Vietnam War, KB2GSD responded -- quote: "I would like to think it would be helpful in getting us out of there. Anybody who can put another match to that fire, to get us out would be, I think, welcome" What effect if any that KB2GSD's statement on the Iraq war might have
on future U-S foreign policy, is unknown.
Source: ARNewsline, RW, KPIX-CBS-5, other published reports
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