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Originally Posted by Cronkite
We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . .
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If Cronkite were one to speak as colorfully as I, what he might have said instead would have been "These guys are full of shit. You're a freaking idiot if you believe what they're saying. They lie everytime their lips move and their breath stinks."
that's really taking straight aim at the entire military industrial complex...
..."American Leaders"....
That's not a shot at this dude or that dude, but that's a condemnation of the whole shooting match.
It'd be akin to Tom Brokaw or a Tim Russert type (before he was dead) saying that not only did Bush lie, but Obama is lying and the military brass is full of shit and the prudent thing for the american peeps to do would be to disbelieve anything that comes out of washington...that won't happen today, and it was quite exceptional then.