This loser should fit right in to Kadima
The chief of staff who decided that he could win the Second Lebanon War without ground troops and without massive bombing, and who resigned in disgrace after the Winograd Commission report came out, now wants to go into politics. Guess which party he's chosen. The IDF's performance in the Second Lebanon War was perceived by many in Israel as less than impressive, and Halutz bore the brunt of the criticism, along with then-Defense Minister Amir Peretz. He resigned from his position as Chief of Staff in January of 2007, after the appointment of several commissions of inquiry into the conduct of the war. The most important of these commissions, which was headed by retired judge Eliyahu Vinograd, found that the IDF command had mismanaged the war.Maybe he should consider Labor - he even talks like Ehud Barak.
After the war went into private business and maintained a relatively low public profile since the war.
Halutz, a former IAF fighter pilot, was the first IDF Chief of Staff whose military career had been in the Air Force and not in one of the ground forces.
In an interview last week with the al-Hurra Arabic language television network, Halutz said that in retrospect, the Lebanon War seems like a great success. “The State of Israel proved that precisely when the sword is placed on its neck, it knows how to act and defend itself,” he said, “and I suggest to its neighbors that they refrain from testing its abilities.”
If Israel is backed into a corner, he added, it will know how to defend itself.
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:39 PM
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If Israel had constituency elections like every Western democracy, the prospects of Dan Halutz being elected are zero. I would say he and Kadima are made for each other.
Heh
Tzipi Livni and Kadima are getting on my last nerve.
The rumors of an imminent war with Iran are flying and Livni thinks it's appropriate to kick her own country in the teeth.
Netanyahu isn't blaming earlier Israeli governments for the withdrawal from Gaza --> Hamas takeover --> increase in rockets being fired into Israel --> war in Gaza that didn't bring down Hamas or rescue Gilad Shalit --> Goldstone Report.
Netanyahu is showing class by not doing this. Tzipi Livni is drowning herself in her own fury at not being PM when she got so close but couldn't close the deal (twice).
It's no excuse for what she's doing.
The problem is not Halutz or Livni or Kadima.
The problem is the stupid Jews who vote for them.
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