By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent: Barak slams push to cut defense budget for 2009
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Title:Those Budget cuts in Defence must be avoided
Name:Dagma
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at all costs.It was undoubtedly one of the reasons for Israel`s downfall during the 2nd Lebanon War. Can one forget Olmert`s recommendation for a rise in his salary and those of his chosen Ministers at the same time... and the fact that these Ministers may have been eating and drinking while our boys at the frontlines in Lebanon were starving and dying of thirst? Olmert must be out of Israel`s way at the sonest possible moment come-what-may and should relinquis most of those Funds and Benefits received by Ministers upon their Retirement .....