4um: Obama's New Spin Doc Is Gen McPeak ~ Butcher Of 1991 Iraq War

Title: Obama's New Spin Doc Is Gen McPeak ~ Butcher Of 1991 Iraq War
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URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general81/ddwr.htm
Published: Mar 22, 2008
Author: Webster Tarpley
Post Date: 2008-03-23 09:22:24 by angle
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At today's Obama rave in Oregon, the Manchurian candidate was loudly defended by retired US Air Force General Merrill McPeak, one of Obama's high-profile handlers. McPeak accused Bill Clinton of McCarthyite tactics (or was it lèse majesté?) for remarks in which Obama's holy name was not even mentioned. Who then is Obama's new defender?

McPeak is a Republican Bush family appointee who was named as Air Force Chief of Staff by President George H.W. Bush in October of 1990. McPeak took over during the time of Operation Desert Shield, and assisted in the overall target selection and strategic planning for the First Gulf War ("Operation Desert Storm") of January-February 1991. During that time McPeak's forces flew about 130,000 sorties over Iraq, bombing that country back into the stone age as part of a Bush-Kissinger operation. It was estimated at the time that if each sortie had killed just one Iraqi, then 130,000 Iraqis had already died when the bombing stopped.

In particular, McPeak was the mastermind of the cowardly and infamous "bomb now, die later" strategy which targeted civilian drinking water and sewage treatment facilities, plus civilian transport infrastrcuture and irrigation systyems needed for farming. This was a strategy of deliberate genocide which resulted in hundreds of thousands of delayed action deaths caused by polluted water and concentrated among old people, infants, and the sick. McPeak thus provided an important contribution to the harvest of hatred against the United States, which is about to result in the 4,000th death among the occupying forces. McPeak helped to prepare the current Iraq debacle more than a decade in advance.

According to recently broadcast accounts, McPeak was also a part of the mass killing in East Timor: "Another Obama adviser, General Merrill McPeak, an Air Force man, who not long after the Dili massacre in East Timor in '91I happened to see on Indonesian TV shortly after that-there was General McPeak overseeing the delivery to Indonesia of US fighter planes." (Allan Nairn, Democracy Now, January 3, 2008) Yet, with this record, McPeak has the gall to lecture Democrats on whom they should vote for. Among air power genocidalists, McPeak is up there with Bomber Harris of RAF Bomber Command and Gen. Curits LeMay of the Tokyop firestorms. Is this change we can believe in?

McPeak is a typical reactionary Republican, having served as Oregon state chairman for the Bob Dole campaign in 1996. In 2000, he enthusiastically endorsed George W. Bush, and worked for Bush as co-chair of Oregon Veterans for Bush. Maybe McPeak should keep his election advice to himself. Instead of pontificating at Obama rallies, he should be standing in the dock at Nuremberg to answer for high crimes against humanity, including genocide in Iraq.

Maybe McPeak's admiration for Obama is due to Obama's status as a trigger-happy warmonger who was ready to bomb both Iran and Pakistan during his US Senate campaign (David Mendell, "Obama would consider missile strikes on Iran," Chicago Tribune, Sept. 25, 2004). Obama now wants to bomb Pakistan maybe McPeak is drawing up the plans for that one already. (Jake Tapper, "Anti-War Obama Pushes Pakistan Invasion," ABC News, August 1, 2007). Or maybe it is just that McPeak likes Obama's plan to choose a Republican running mate or Secretary of Defense like Hagel or Lugar. (Sarah Baxter, "Barnstorming Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet," London Sunday Times, March 2, 2008).

With the Obama campaign in desperate straits over the last several weeks, a shocking parade of the candidate's elitist backers have been forced to rush to his public defense. Just over the past few days we have seen the following: Zbigniew Brzezinski (Pol Pot supporter who created the 1979 Afghan-Soviet and 1980 Iran-Iraq wars), Jay Rockefeller (Bush's man on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and son of genocidalist John D. Rockefeller III), Joseph Nye (Trilateral-Bilderberger theoretician of imperialist "soft power"), and now "Bomb Now, Die Later" McPeak. Is this what a future Obama confrontation cabinet would look like? McPeak, for his part, looks like Death Warmed Over.

What's most amazing to me about this is that an Army Field Manual (I've got it at my desk at work, so I'm not sure the number) titled "Water Supply in Theaters of Operation" discusses the purposeful destruction or rendering useless of civilian water and santitation facilities. There is no weasel wording about it, and it acknowledges the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties on the Laws of War, and it calls it a war crime.

Having spent some time as a member of SAC with Lemay in charge during the 1950s, there was never any desire by anyone to kill others in any fashion.

At all times we were under direct and total control of duly elected and appointed civilian officials. Truman as president authorized the A-bombing of Japan. Churchill and Roosevelt authorized the bombing of Germany. The military is but an instrument of war, not the "decider".

Cyni, your military integrity lies in a different time and place. Today, you cannot vouch for the character of the military.

" Among air power genocidalists, McPeak is up there with Bomber Harris of RAF Bomber Command and Gen. Curits LeMay of the Tokyop firestorms. Is this change we can believe in?"

General Merrill A. McPeak, USAF (Ret) joins ECC's board of directors.

WAYNE, PA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1995--ECC International Corp. (NYSE:ECC) announced today that General Merrill A. McPeak, USAF (Ret) was elected a member of the board of directors.

General McPeak retired in November of 1994 as chief of staff of the United States Air Force.

General McPeak, a 1957 graduate of San Diego State College, spent 37 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in Nov. 1994 as chief of staff. As Air Chief, General McPeak led the Air Force during a period of very active United States overseas military involvement including Desert Storm and operations in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Caribbean.

As a career fighter pilot, General McPeak accumulated over 6,500 flying hours principally in F-100, F-104, F-111, F-4, F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft. In 1967 and 1968, he flew solo and lead solo positions with "The Thunderbirds" -- the U.S. Air Force Demonstration Flying Team. General McPeak is a rated parachutist and has been awarded pilot wings by many foreign air forces including France and Russia. General McPeak has commanded at nearly every level in the Air Force; squadron, group and wing. Immediately prior to becoming the Air Force Chief of Staff, he served as Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Air Forces.

George W. Murphy, ECC's president and CEO stated, "General McPeak's keen interest in and strong understanding of the role of simulation and technology-based training, as it affects military training and readiness, will be an asset to the company."

ECC International Corp. is a world leader in the design, research and production of simulators and related training programs for crew, operator and maintenance training. Through its headquarters and Instructional Systems Development Group in Wayne, PA; its Systems Design and Production Center in Orlando, FL; and through a wholly owned subsidiary, ECC Simulation Limited in Shoreham, England the company provides a wide range of products and services used by all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense and by armed forces in 25 foreign countries. ECC's frozen food vending machine, manufactured under a license agreement with Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH, and ECC's new beverage vending machine are part of ECC's defense diversification program in which it has applied its engineering and manufacturing capabilities to build a commercial business segment.

CONTACT: ECC International Corp.

George Murphy, 610/687-2600

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John P. Kehoe/Van Negris, 212/888-1616

Bolstered by Iraq success, ECC nets new sales orders

ORLANDO -- Fresh from firsthand use in Iraq, the workhorse product for ECC International Corp. has landed the company a new round of orders.

ECC's Engagement Skills Trainer allows small groups of soldiers to train together on marksmanship, "shoot-don't-shoot" exercises and combat scenarios.

The company uses a variety of military weapons in the trainer, substituting laser signals for bullets.

The system has been used at the U.S. Army's infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., and with National Guard operations.

Last week, ECC received a new $8.2 million for an additional 57 systems.