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Former CBS Anchor Walter Cronkite Warns Iraq War Will Ignite WWIII
(Christopher Ferrell, theEagle.com, October 28, 2002)
Walter Cronkite, the veteran newsman who covered almost every major world event that took place during his six-decade career, on Sunday warned that if the United States takes action against Iraq without support from the United Nations it could set the stage for World War III. . . . "I see the possibility if we do that of really setting forth World War III." . . . If the United States goes in without worldwide support, however, other countries in the region such as Iran and Pakistan could retaliate against the U.S., Cronkite said. He said the threat of nuclear exchanges between India and Pakistan could be increased if a conflict arises. . . . Cronkite said he fears Americans are learning less and less about what their government is doing, and worse, they do not seem to care. . . . “That means we don’t have a democracy,” he said. “We’ve got an oligarchy here, not a democracy. Our democracy is in some danger if we don’t concentrate on educating the populace.” . . . Since the Vietnam War, Cronkite said, the media has not been allowed to take its cameras, pencils and notepads into the field with the soldiers to give an accurate account of what is happening. . . . During World War II, reporters were in fox holes, and during the Vietnam War they were on the battlefields. . . . “[In past conflicts], you wrote it to be the history,” he said. “We have no history now of the Persian Gulf War. We have only what the military reporters wrote and that’s what their bosses told them. That’s not good enough.”

posted by LoZo 4:40 PM