CBS - CRONKITE DAMNS ANOTHER WAR

Walter Cronkite, whose criticism of America's Vietnam War policies was said to be a turning point in the war ("If we've lost Walter, then we've lost the country," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told an aide at the time) has called the war in Iraq "a mistake ... a terrible disaster." In an interview with the CBS television station in San Francisco, the 90-year-old Cronkite said that he doubted that his words would have much impact on the current administration. However he added, "Anybody who can put another match to that fire to get us out would be, I think, welcome." Meanwhile, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, speaking at a conference in Tokyo, criticized the news media for not investigating "on the ground" in Iraq U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. But in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, former CBS anchor Bob Schieffer maintained that the U.S. got into the war because "the intelligence was wrong, and they're paying a price for it. [Bush is] a decent and honest man."

01/03/2007