Halutz angered when IDF officer says Israel lost Lebanon war

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Chief of Staff Dan Halutz reacted angrily Thursday to a comment by a senior Israel Defense Forces officer who said Israel lost the war in Lebanon.

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Halutz, meanwhile, has appeared at numerous IDF conferences and made statements to the media in an effort to persuade the public that the failure in Lebanon was less severe than the media has portrayed it as being. He has also striven to convince people that he must continue commanding the army.

Halutz is also fighting leaks from the army to the media.

Haaretz reported about a month ago that Halutz warned the generals that he had ordered printouts of their call logs and knew which journalists they had been calling.

Haaretz

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1. This jerk is covering his own ass. n.t.