From: Ad 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834572.html

"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Winograd Commission that his
decision to respond to the abduction of soldiers with a broad military
operation was made as early as March 2006, four months before last summer's
Lebanon war broke out."

"In a meeting in March, Olmert asked the army commanders whether
operational plans existed for such a possibility, and they said yes. He
asked to see the plans, and they asked why. He responded that he did not
want to make a snap decision in the case of an abduction, and preferred to
decide at that moment. Presented with the options, he selected a moderate
plan that included air attacks accompanied by a limited ground operation.
At the time, Shaul Mofaz was defense minister.

The Winograd Commission asked Olmert what he thought his predecessor would
have done. Olmert said that following Hezbollah's failed November 2005
attempt to abduct Israel Defense Forces troops in the border village of
Ghajar, Sharon ordered the army to prepare a "list of targets"
for a military response in Lebanon. The list included an air attack on the
long-range Fajr and Zilzal rockets, which were destroyed in an air raid the
first night of the war. Sharon said at the time that the status quo, of
ongoing Hezbollah raids, could not continue. Olmert told the commission
that he behaved as Sharon would have."


Huummm... a preplanned war just waiting for the right provocation. Very
close to a war of aggression.

Remember that the invasion of Poland in Sept 39 happened...um...
"because of" a "polish attack on a german radio
station".

Even so Germany got done for waging a war of aggression....


& then

"Olmert's chief of staff, Yoram Turbowicz, gave the Winograd
Commission the diplomatic exchanges that occurred during the war.

He said that as early as the first day of the war, U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice spoke with Olmert and asked that Lebanese Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora not be undermined. Israel understood this to mean that
Lebanese infrastructure should not be destroyed, even though the IDF had
originally planned otherwise. "

How much did the US know about the first part? All? The target list? The
conversation with Ms Rice would point that way.

In which case was this a conspiracy between the US & Israel against
Hezbollah which then turned into an attack on Lebanon per se....which once
more gets perilously close to a war of aggression.


Adam

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