[MarkL]

Olmert's not a Republican and in fact not even an American. Take this where it belongs: Israel wimped out, Olmert is a notorious lefty whose entire family is active in left-wing "peace" causes in Israel, and he obviously had no heart to go through with it. Bush can only do so many things, and running a foreign country (Israel) is not one of them.

Exactly. I read a report that Olmert quashed an IDF plan to invade Lebanon from north of the river, as well as destroying the Hezbo headquarters in a first strike, which would have beheaded the Hezbos leadership, as well as cutting the terrorists off from both retreat and resupply.

Mark

[reagandemo]

I heard the same thing that Olmert being a lawyer and leftist tried to go the route of "can't we just get along" and negotiate with these people. His commanders were ready to pounce on the Islamofacists and he held them back which got a lot of people needlessly killed.