Obama’s Military Advisor Blames Bush

Retired US Air Force General Merrill McPeak believes Iran hates America because of President Bush’s “tough talk”. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. I mean, you just can’t make stuff this good up! It is scary that someone this, well, dumb, could rise to a position of power and importance.

McPeak was the Air Force’s Chief of Staff and a member of the Joint Chiefs during the first Bush’s presidency. He claims that Iran is behaving the way they are because President Bush talks tough about them and insults them. Before President Bush they weren’t any problem. He even seems to defend Iran. “Iran is a big enemy of al Qaeda,” said McPeak. He said, “They were a big enemy of the Taliban. They cooperated with us quite completely in the initial phases of our Afghanistan operation.” So Iran cooperated with us, according to McPeak.

The Afghanistan operations he refers to didn’t begin until after the 9/11 attacks. Keep that in mind because McPeak went on to say, “…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.”

The ‘axil of evil’ statement was made by President Bush after the 9/11 attacks. McPeak can’t have it both ways. Frank Gaffney, was a Pentagon policymaker in the Ronald Reagan administration and now heads the Center for Security Policy. Gaffney said, “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 teh United States, its ally Israel and freedom-loving, non-Islamist nations more generally.”

It was Iran that overthrew our embassy and held US citizens hostage for over a year during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. It was Iran then that named the US the ‘great satan’. It is Iran that has promised the complete destruction of Israel and the US. All this long before the current President Bush included them in the ‘axis of evil’.

McPeak is Obama’s senior military advisor. Obama has said that he would meet with Iranian leader Ahmadinejad, without pre-conditions. Yeah, McMillan met with Hitler and flaunted the “agreement” he reached with him. Don’t know who I’m talking about? Look it up. What were the consequences of that niave’ leader meeting with a murderous tyrant?