1.0 link 16605 <![CDATA[Telling the Truth About the War on Drugs]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-cronkite/telling-the-truth-about-t_b_16605.html As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is."

To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

Sadly, that is not an ethic to which all politicians aspire - least of all in a time of war.

I remember. I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the...

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