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March 5, 2008
Meet Commander Obama's Senior Military Advisor
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 5, 2008 8:49 PM
Comments
McPeak drove the morale of the USAF into the ground during his tenure. From his utter disregard for the safety of instructor pilots and their students through his meddling in the selection of a trainer to his desecration of the uniform, Merril McPeak is remembered as a most despised figure. He's been looking for traction any where he can find it since he retired - he's tried the Republicans and they won't have anything to do with him and he's tried his luck with Kerry and now Obama. He's just a tool and if Obama does manage to sneak into office, he would be well advised to steer clear of a moron like McPeak.
On the flip side of the two-headed nickle is Wesley Clark. Another idiot with essentially the same desperate need to scratch his way back into the limelight. The guy once chased me around the Pentagon gym trying to convince me to buy his sorry book. He had just retired and was doing his "book tour". His booked tanked and he couldn't catch on with the Republicans so he simply rolled back into the Clinton camp. He is such a willing tool for them which is quite amazing considering how they happily tossed him under the bus following his Kosovo fiasco.
A lot of flag officers move onto bigger and better things when they retire. Some lead corporations, others excel in educational institutions, and some just retire and go fishing. I'd happily buy these two a couple of fishing permits in the state(s) of their choice if they would just fade away but instead they linger on and on. Hell, I'd buy them their own bait shop but Wesley would micro-manage it and McPeak would be indistinguishable from the nightcrawlers.
Posted by: tfhr at March 5, 2008 10:12 PM
Excuse me, General McPeak, but from my humble understanding, Iran initially cooperated with us in our Afghanistan operations because they were scared of us, up until the point when we started squabbling amongst ourselves.
The internal divisions, more perceived (to outsiders that don't understand our public debates) than real, gave Iran comfort in the belief that if the United States attacked them, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, et al, would come to the aid of Iran.
If Iran was still scared shitless of us, they wouldn't be cravenly orchestrating attacks against Americans in Iraq, nor would they be shipping explosives to the terrorist/insurgents.
So how many American service personnel have died in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the outward projection of disunity?
Posted by: on-the-rocks at March 5, 2008 11:24 PM
Barack Hussein Obama took cash from the Syrian Rezko, who took cash from arms merchant Auchi, who earned his cash selling arms to Saddam Hussein.
How about that?
Posted by: DANEgerus at March 5, 2008 11:36 PM
General McPeak is an ASS. If you know any insiders, inside the Beltway, you would know.
Osama Obama is scraping the bottom of the cesspool in using McPeak.
This will bite Osama, oops, Obama in the ass, big time, as Viet Vet Brothers roll out for the vote.
Oh, the Dems forgot about that voting block. Quite a bit more fiesty than the NASCAR block, no?
This post dedicated to Paladon. Thank you for your service Brother. Airborne! Marine (had to add that last part just to be me,,,)
Posted by: Oiao at March 6, 2008 12:52 AM
Weasely Clark didnt even come close to getting the DEMONcrat nomination which indicates how much they care for Generals. They did nominate John Kerry only because he turned into a traitor after returning from Vietnam with a few scratches. As for this McPeak clown, most people have never heard of him nor care to. McPeak should just move to Iran and join the Iranian military.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 6, 2008 6:27 AM
Just as I thought, Obama is looking for a staff of yes-men and bullies!
Posted by: KHarn at March 6, 2008 2:51 PM
McPeak: Combat pilot; combat hero; enemy to Pentagon ticket punchers everywhere; a man of vision and integrity.
All of you: Bums passed over promotion due to incompetence; cowards who slunk into desk jobs instead of deployments; Internet geeks.
Posted by: NSR at March 13, 2008 2:14 PM
