Olmert criticizes army in Lebanon war testimony

[hadrons]

Source: Yahoo!

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli leader Ehud Olmert cast blame on the military for failings in the Lebanon war in testimony released on Thursday to an inquiry whose criticism of his own conduct has him battling for political survival.

"I think the army disappointed itself to a large degree," the prime minister told the Winograd Commission investigating last year's costly war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.

"Something in the command and control concept did not meet expectations and undoubtedly led to a disparity between what we were capable of achieving and what we actually achieved," Olmert said.

In an interim report last week, the government-appointed panel said Olmert was guilty of "a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence" in deciding to go to war after Hezbollah seized two Israeli soldiers.

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Blames someone else ... spoke like a true neo-con

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "The Buck Stops Here."

Funny, I don't remember Harry Truman holding himself blameless for Korea and its military developments. He may have fired McArthur (because he didn't want to extend the war into China), but he was ready to take the heat in the polls for it.

[Tempest]

2. Olmert's heading to the political graveyard

You can bet there will be a huge outcry in Israel over his cowardice in blaming the military.

[azurnoir]

3. What the military did not kill Lebanese for him?

A thousand dead and a country set back 20 years was a bit ham handed to say the least, Mr Olmert went after Lebanon in a way that could be described as Jihadist, sorry if the military wasn't as into it him, but this comment should seal his doom, maybe * has room in Paraguay for him?