https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McInerney#Post_military_career
Post military career
Between January 1, 2002, and April 20, 2008, McInerney appeared 144 times on Fox TV.[2]
In 2002, he said a military campaign against Iraq, would be "shorter" than the 42 days it took to complete the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and further, "It is going to be absolutely awesome, and that's why this war, if we do it properly, will go very quick, and we'll have less civilian casualties than we did last time."[3]
In 2004, he claimed that with the aid of Russians, Saddam had transported WMDs and millions to Syria for safekeeping.[4] Although McInernery said they had been moved to three places in Syria and one in Lebanon, the final report of the Iraq Survey Group, by Charles A. Duelfer, special adviser on Iraqi weapons to the C.I.A., concluded that any stockpiles had been destroyed long before the war and that transfers to Syria were "unlikely."[5]
In 2006, McInerney advocated for regime change via military action against Iran and North Korea.[6]
General McInerney has been a member of the Boards of Directors of military contractors, including Alloy Surfaces Company, Kilgore Flares Co, Nortel Government Solutions Inc. Pan American International Academy (Flight Simulators), Agusta Westland NA, and Crescent Partnerships.[7]
In 2010, McInerney provided his support against the court martial of fellow birther Terrence Lakin, who refused to deploy to Afghanistan due to his suspicion of President Barack Obama's birthplace.[8]
Previously, McInerney had called President Obama a treasonous leader who is “aiding and abetting the enemy."[9] McInerney also has said there were "widespread and legitimate concerns that the President [Obama] is constitutionally ineligible to hold office."[10]
In 2015 as a Fox News contributor, and a member of the Iran Policy Committee. McInerney was noted for insisting on Fox News that terrorists had flown the disappeared Malaysia Airlines 370 to Pakistan; that later turned out to be a conspiracy theory.[11][12]
On September 6, 2016, he endorsed the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.[13]
In a May 2018 interview with Charles Payne on Fox News, McInerney asserted that torture had "worked on" John McCain and "That's why they call him 'Songbird John,"[14][15][16] referencing a false claim against McCain during the Republican primary in South Carolina in 2000.[15][16] Payne later apologized to McCain and his family for the remark.[16][17] Afterward, Fox News announced that McInerney would never appear on Fox News or Fox Business again.[18]
