Ynet doves are trying once again to protect olmert. Any half wit could see that olmert was afraid of casualties(he himself did no combat), had no concept of simple fighting(attack hezbollah from their blind side) in mass, not dribbling troopps, not hesitating-go go go. As winograd said, olmert was a military incompetent and coward. Bibi saying in this cable is 100% correct. Olmert almost ruined israeli deterrence and that is why he offers so many concessions. A more gutless cowards israel cannot find in the past, present or future.

Then Prime Minister Olmert did indeed "drip" Jewish soldiers "into (Hezbollah's) gunsights." Netanyahu's mistake is that he did not say it publicly and boldly.

Hasson criticizes bibi for airing olmert's dirty laundry to the americans. Bibi spoke the truth to ackerman who was visiting that olmert botched the war. Olmert was aided by livni, who sat there like a dumb stooge, and mofaz, a sloppy general who should have grabbed olmert by the shoulder and said the following: the plan is wrong, idf is walking into ied/antitank ambushes from 2 sides. Halutz was out of his depth, peretz was a fish out of water. General eisenkott or ashkenazi should have been brought in to organise a land campaign in steatlh and en mass to bludgeon hezbollah pockets in the south up to the litani at least and to commando raid at various points to eliminate hamas top leadership. Instead olmert was crying, livni sat on her ass, adn hasson did nothing to help the idf and 150 soldiers are now dead. And hasson has the nerve to criticize bibi. Winograd criticized olmert who ignored them. Well I say it now and said it then. Olmert was afraid of one drop of blood, was personally in fear and relied on air power. He cost the idf casualites by dribbling soldiers frontwards than even a retard would know is suicide. 150 idf are dead including grossman's son because these 3 duembbells sat on their hands. Its time afello and shneller jump to likud. One administration under olmert is enough for a lifetime. Finally, livni says she arranged an effective Un resolution. End of story-she's a clown and israelis voting her her reflect a dumb electorate who deserve her. Ask the 1 million israelis in the south who have a bit of life now compared to no life under olmert.

If Bibi had voiced this publicly, Kadima would have received fewer votes in the election, and Likud may have had a majority.

So joined the other 7 million Israeli citizens who badmouthed this corrupt buffoon.

it seems that Bibi might have had a few harsh words. So what?! Actually Netanyahu has proved absolutely correct in his stance as WikiLeaks demonstrably show.

When Olmert makes a man whose idea of a preemptive strike is by getting the Histadrut to go on strike before they even list their demands then how can you expect to win a war. Olmert was a fool who was never cut out to be PM and had Sharon not had a stroke Kadima would not have been a left wing party & Olmert would have never been made leader. In Lebanon the chief of staff was refusing requests from the officers in Lebanon for more infantry until the very last days of the war insisting air power would win the war.Olmert, Livni, Peretz, Halutz, President elect Peres all snubbed the 1 year memorial service for the soldiers who died in Lebanon. The whole lot of them were disgusting. As for bringing down Iranian regime, we are better off with the enemy we know than risk getting somebody worse or somebody who knows how to sweet talk the west but basic policy doesn't change. As a result they start dropping sanctions and taking less and less interest in the nuclear program because the new leader says things they like to hear. For Israel right now unless there is somebody in the Iranian political institution who wants real reforms and wants to end the nuclear program then our best interest is keeping Ahmadinejad in power because the west don't like him and his stupid speeches encourage sanctions.

been put on trial for aiding the enemy. The same for peres and the oslo gang. But instead we see them still in politics or awaiting a trial for corruption. Except for halutz, he will enter politics and may yet become the leader of kadima. We deserve better leadership and opposition.

And where are we today? Olmert some how feels secure enough to offer his opinions, Livni snipes from the side on basically eveyrthing and Halutz..has joined Kadima ... they'll be lucky to get 2 mandates next election..