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March 5, 2008
Meet Commander Obama's Senior Military Advisor
Posted by Dave Blount at March 5, 2008 8:49 PM
Just how much trouble will American be in if by some historical fluke Barack Hussein Obama becomes President? His most senior military advisor, General Merrill McPeak, offers a clue.
According to McGeek, Iran was our ally until W hurt its feelings:
"They were a big enemy of the Taliban," said the retired four-star general. "They cooperated with us quite completely in the initial phases of our Afghanistan operation. And it was us that insulted them by including them in the 'axis of evil' and making sure they understood we didn't like them very much."
McPeak, an Obama campaign co-chairman, was referring to Bush's post-September 11 speech in which he referred to North Korea, Iraq and Iran as an "axis of evil."
"That drove us apart," said McPeak. "Obama's idea is, why not talk to them. Why not see if there isn't some common ground. Certainly, the fight against al Qaeda would be one of them."
Soon after Iran's radical Islamic regime was conceived (with the assistance of the witless Jimmy Carter), it invaded our embassy in an overt act of war, holding Americans hostage for 444 days. In 1996, it killed 19 Americans in the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, utilizing its cat's paw Hezbollah, which has been waging a terror war against our ally Israel. President Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised to wipe Israel off the map, and has invited people to imagine a world without the USA. In light of their advanced nuclear weapons program, Iranians' threats carry some weight. Currently Iran is killing Americans in Iraq in an attempt to gain a stranglehold over the West's oil supply.
We're asked to believe that all of this is George Bush's fault, and that once Obama plays footsie with the ayatollahs, everything will be sweetness and light.
Having an IQ higher than a plant's, Frank Gaffney — a Pentagon policymaker in the Ronald Reagan administration and head of the Center for Security Policy — isn't buying it:
With all due respect to Gen. McPeak, what drives the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran apart — and has since 1979 — is the unwavering antipathy of the regime in Tehran towards the United States, its ally Israel and freedom-loving, non-Islamist nations more generally.
It is not simply naïve, it is reckless to ignore: serial statements by the mullahs and their front man, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, about a world without America; their goons parading in Iranian cities shouting 'Death to America'; their active efforts to kill and maim Americans and Iraqis in the hope of defeating the United States in Iraq and rendering the latter an oil-rich satellite and new safe-haven for Iranian-backed terror; and accumulating evidence that Iran's Hezbollah proxies, and their intelligence agents are developing cells capable of unleashing deadly violence here as well as elsewhere. Even an individual without appreciable expertise in such matters like Sen. Obama should be able to discern these realities. It is inexplicable how a professional military officer like Gen. McPeak could fail to do so.
But there is an explanation: McWeak is a moonbat. If not, he would be doing everything in his power to protect America from Obama, not telling outlandish lies on his behalf.
On a tip from Farmer Ted.
