McPeak Spoke

The denizens of blogtopia™ are really getting annoying. Anyone who read my last piece on McPeak and clicked on the links would already be aware of his views on the Middle East which are cleverly disguised in the Wikipedia entry as “Controversies”. There is also a link to the 2003 Oregonian interview that is at the heart of the matter, so you can decide for yourself what you think.

I know he’s a “terrorist-loving anti-Semite”, because I get e-mails and comments every time I say essentially the same thing from people telling me I am.

The only major points of difference are that Commodore McSpacecadet thinks that Israeli considerations were more important to the Iraq invasion than I do, and he thinks it’s Jewish voters behind the skewed policy. I think the possible benefit to Israel was another of the many excuses used to justify a war with Saddam over oil, and the campaign contributions from small, but powerful. segments of both the Jewish population and the evangelical Christian population are driving this.

Full disclosure: We were both in the Air Force at the same time, and were both awarded the Air Medal, the Combat Readiness Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Air Force Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, so it must be a conspiracy – or people in the military during the 1967 Israeli-Arab war might accept as true something that other people don’t want to believe, despite its having been heavily reported on for years.

What really ticks me off is I don’t like or trust this guy, and I really resent having to defend him in the kindergarten candidate contest that has already disenfranchised me and is about to make Florida even more unlivable by giving the Republicans an opportunity to have a low turnout election to pass their garbage. About half my blogroll has become agitprop organs for candidates, rather than providers of honest opinions. Neither one of these people can win this outright and that reality has driven their supporters to stupidity. The vast majority of voters don’t even start paying attention until after Labor Day, so none of this crap makes any difference at all. I do not enjoy the fact that my right to vote has become a collateral casualty.