I must say, it is unusual to see such unanimity from readers. In 40+

e-mails, only one dissent so far — see below. This guy’s a stinker, say

the troops.

Except: “John—Do you really want to be seen as sniping at a guy who flew

269 missions over Vietnam? Sure, you can find other military types who have

negative things to say about McPeak — grumbling is, after all, a soldier’s

privilege — but the average American is going to feel that McPeak earned

his right to criticize Chickenhawk Bush, no matter how much you might

disagree with those criticisms.”