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| Caroline Glick: Olmert Government Must Go |
| 2006-08-15 |
| From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government's incompetent management of the war in Lebanon. These calls are misguided. We do not need a commission to know what happened or what has to happen. The Olmert government has failed on every level. The Olmert government must go. The Knesset must vote no confidence in this government and new elections must be carried out as soon as the law permits. If the Knesset hesitates in taking this required step, then the people of Israel must take to the streets in mass demonstrations and demand that our representatives send Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and their comrades out to pasture. Every aspect of the government's handling of the war has been a failure. Take relief efforts as an example. For five weeks the government ignored the humanitarian disaster in the North where over one million Israelis are under missile assault. The government developed no comprehensive plan for organizing relief efforts to feed citizens in bomb shelters or for evacuating them. And then there is the military failure. The IDF suffers from acute leadership failures - brought to Israel courtesy of Ariel Sharon who hacked away at the General Staff, undermined its sense of mission and treated our generals like office boys just as he decimated the Likud by undermining its political vision and promoting its weakest members. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 Amen and Amen, Caroline. Now. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-08-15 21:00 |
| #11 what a mess. We need Israel now. I hope they have new elections. |
| Posted by: Jigum Hupolumble7870 2006-08-15 20:50 |
| #10 She did have fun, TW. In fact, I'm afraid I've created a monster. Takes away from my rantburg time, ya know. Ah well, you live and learn (plus, I can always break out the ol' laptop to surf RB). Tell the trailing daughters we said thanks for the cookies and scones too (as well as a big shout out to you for setting up the tea party and Mr. Wife's allowing you to see to it that it didn't get out of hand). Some RB'ers can be soooooo primitive, ya know (which is why I love RB). |
| Posted by: BA 2006-08-15 13:57 |
| #9 My chances are a lot better. Olmert has a large majority. Moreover, most of his people are not established---if there are new elections, they're history. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-15 12:31 |
| #8 I hope Mrs. BA had fun shopping. It was exactly the wrong time by JosephM's internal clock, commuting as he does from waaaay across the world in Guam. I would have enjoyed talking to him informally -- I gather the man is tied in with all the interesting happenings over there, based on tidbits casually dropped in his posts. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-15 11:42 |
| #7 A shame he didn't show at your Tea Party last night, TW. Sorry I was so late, but Ebay called (Mrs. BA just learned about it for kid's clothes, lol). Imagine the "small talk" that would've been generated having Joe M. in our midst. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-08-15 11:35 |
| #6 JosephM, you are a treasure. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-15 11:26 |
| #5 I hope your chances are as good as Glick's. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-08-15 09:31 |
| #4 And I must get a million dollars. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-15 09:23 |
| #3 No, Amers have NOT lost faith in Israel as an ally, and never will. For me, the IDF is basically saving Lebanon and even Syria from themselves, i.e. by giving them opportunities to show whether they side wid the West or domination by Tehran, with sovereignty and local democracy vs. being PC controlled local peons, or worse, for Radical Iran. Iff Radical islam can threaten Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, THEY CAN THREATEN ANY PART OF ISRAEL. WHERE ARE ISRAEL'S CITIZENS SUPPOSED TO RETREAT OR FALL BACK TO? The only thing Israels' citizens can do is either FIGHT, OR WILFULLY LEAVE/ABANDON THEIR OWN COUNTRY TO THEIR ENEMIES. IF THE WEST FAILS TO STOP RADICAL IRAN, ISRAEL WILL FIND HERSELF A BESIEGED ISLAND OF DEMOCRACY IN A SEA OF IRANIAN-CONTROLLED LANDS/PROXY STATES, PERHAPS THE LONE SURVIVOR OF THE WHOLE OF "ME DEMOCRACY". Remember, USA = West are not just fighting GLOBAL SECULARISM, GLOBAL SOCIALISM, GLOBAL GOVERNMENTISM-POLICRATISM/POLITICISM, andor GLOBAL RADICAL ISLAMISM, we are also fighting GLOBAL ANTI-DEMOCRACY, amongst other thingys. WOT > WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD, WAR FOR THE WORLD = our ultimate prize is that FREEDOM GETS TO LIVE, NOT DIE. The enemies of freedom = Lefties = Clintonism > are on ALL SIDES, EVERY SIDES, and NO SIDES to achieve their agenda. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-08-15 03:03 |
| #2 During the ups and downs and confusion the last month I sometimes wishfully hoped that Olmert and the Israeli Gubmint had perfected some kind of New Media Jujitsu which was flummoxing the hell out of the MSM and Hizzbullocks leaving the IDF to eventually roll up the Bekaa and kick ass. Turns out Olmert and his gubmint were on the mat.. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-08-15 02:03 |
| #1 Absolutely correct. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-15 00:16 |