Israeli Prime Minister Olmert The Next To Resign?

    Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and his Defense Minister Amir Peretz are being pressured to resign,according to the AP.

    As you know, the Israeli army's Chief of Staff (Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz) stepped down because of the many inquiries into the handling of the  war with Lebanon.

    At Yahoo News

    By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Write                        January 17,2007

"The war clearly was mismanaged, and when a war is clearly mismanaged, there is no doubt the chief of staff is responsible," said opposition lawmaker Ran Cohen, a former high-ranking military officer. "The responsibility is shared by him, the prime minister and the defense minister, and sooner or later, they, too, will have to leave."                        An opinion poll published last week showed Olmert's approval rating at just 14 percent, and his Kadima Party losing if new elections were held.

"It is not clear whether the prime minister will be able to survive the resignation of chief of staff Halutz and his own political problems," said Ephraim Inbar, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. "We may see pressure in his own party to replace him. This resignation is definitely the beginning of political turmoil in Israel."       The Article

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   Is this not somewhat of a mirrored reflection of what is going on in our government? Only in our case, it was Rumsfeld and a few Generals (John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and Gen. George Casey) who happened to not agree with the Bush war ' surge'.

   Of course, this is Prime Minister Olmert's own fault for listening to Bush in the first place! You do not take advice about war from someone who cannot even spell ' war' much less conduct one!

   Impeach Bush!!

 

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