PM Olmert: "We Will Correct Everything That Needs Correcting."
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Following are Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remarks on the Winograd
Committee:

"Good evening. This afternoon I received the first part of the Winograd
Committee report ( http://tinyurl.com/2ghkvm ). The Government established
the Committee seven months ago in order to examine the Second Lebanon War.

I have studied the main points of the report. The report is grave and
harsh. There were achievements. There were failures by the main
decision-makers with myself at their head. Lessons must be drawn. Faults -
and they are many - must be corrected. There is much to do. I intend to
act in order to correct everything that needs correcting, thoroughly and
quickly.

I intend to convene a special Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 2.5.07. I will
propose that a team be appointed to quickly study the report and implement
the necessary lessons.

It would be incorrect to resign and I do not intend to do so.

This Government made the decisions and this Government will correct the
faults.

From our point-of-view, the submission of the report does not close a
chapter in the war. The submission of the report opens a new - and no less
important - chapter, that of correcting the faults and learning the lessons.

This evening, I am thinking about the bereaved families who lost loved ones
in this just and unavoidable war. I am thinking about the wounded and I am
thinking about Udi, Eldad and Gilad Shalit. Like all of Israel, I believe
that it will be possible to bring them back home quickly.

Lastly, I would like to thank the Committee of Inquiry - its Chairman,
retired judge Eliyahu Winograd, and its members: Prof. Ruth Gavison, Prof.
Yehezkel Dror, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Menachem Einan and Dr. Chaim Nadel, for
their serious, thorough and dedicated work."