RE: Politicians take aim at Olmert

Steve opines: "The unspoken subtext of this is that these committees will also investigate whether Olmert was dancing at the end of the Bush Administration's strings. Other sources have indicated the we were "pushing" Israel to take action in Lebanon. I don't think they will be so much concerned with the actual fact of that, but more with what happened after we went schizophrenic on them and hid behind the UN."

"That leads to the other subtext, which is that there seem to be developing cracks in foreign policy in the Bush Administration along the lines of those that led Colin Powell to take a hike. Interesting developments ahead. The real question would be, what will we do should Israel heat things up again in Southern Lebanon?"

Another theory is that Olmert just choked... Bush gave him the green light to go in and demolish Hezbollah, but Olmert just froze. He had the support of his people, America, and even other Arab nations wanted him to go in and get rid of Hezbollah, but he didn't do it. I feel Bush ended up going to the U.N. because Olmert wasn't going to do anything and he (Olmert) wanted an U.N. resolution to save face. Sadly, these moves by Olmert will probably haunt Israel and the Middle East for many years to come.