IDF opposes proposed cuts in Defense Ministry's budget

You have a civilian leadership as dumb as Donald Rumsfeld and Bush.

While it will make the Bush Administration unhappy, dump that useless Missile Defense System. God forbid, that you should have to invade anyone, but ground troops and air support should be high on you agenda. Privatization must have weakened your forces. The military must control their own logistics.

This sort of thing was expected from Peretz, but who is responsible for smacking Olmert upside the head now?

When the government wants money they take it from defense because unless there is a war other than the men who put their lives on the line to fight wars started by politcians who cares or notices what they do or dont get unless there is a war and are under equiped. In Lebanon as a result of succesive budget cuts there were men going into battle without the very basics and a lack of training for reserves because there was no money for training. The average voter doesnt look at how much was spent on the millitary when they go out and vote as long as they can go about their ordinary day to day lives what happens but only when it comes to Lebanon and other wars does anybody sit up take notice but politicians dont campaign on support given to the millitary Olmert is another of many politicians who have been using this trick since the late 80s at least the difference is last year Olmert promised an essential increase but instead now wants to cuts. Failings forgoton politics as usual.

This guy said he was going to raise the budget and now we get this. He led us to disaster in Lebanon, he has facilitated in the rise of hamastan. Syria is inching closer to war, Iran is racing to be a nuclear power....and we have this double talkinking sniveling, power hungry man who has absolutely no sense of duty to the people he was elected to serve. We want new elections NOWWWW!!! ENOUGH OF THE KADIMA SPINNN MACHINE!!!!

We should be investing all our money in our defense now that we have hamastan in the south, hezbollah that have rearmed and bolstered, Syria eyes on the golan and Iran looming in the back ground building nuclear missiles....and the bureaucrats want to tcut the defense budget! These people must be the stupidist lot ever compromising a government. I mean are they on drugs or are they just plain morons...seriously?? We should be putinng all our resources into the defense getting ready fro the coming storm, but the olmert/kadima govt in its consistency want to weaken further Israel.....Olmert has taken over the mantle from Barak as the worst PM in Israeli history. He has a 3% approval rating and yet he will not budge from his seat, a man that cares not for his people but only his personal power!!! BIBI for PM!!!

Now is the time to put as much money as we can in our defense. These bureaucrats have learned nothing from hamastan and the war with hezbollah, all they care about is money. We are facing so many threat all around us it should be a non issue that money be lavished on the IDF....BUT NO, not with these feckless leaders who are contemptible,and corrupt...DISGUSTING!!!

We are about to face multiple engagements and they are thinking of cutting the defense budget!!!! Are these people for real, are they completely disconnected to the morale and threat perceptions on the israeli street and arab/persian governments plans. Instead of cutting we should be raising the budget to new heights. building the home front, bunkers, and municipalities dealing with emergency situations. Being able to function without a centralizing authority if need be...But tnone of this is happening, it is appalling, scaring and unbelievable. WHatever this govt proposes I have learned that the right way is to do the exact opposite!!!!

After the Lebanon fiasco just 1 year ago the government was promising to increase the defense budget because it became obvious how much damage succesive budget cuts had done to IDF. Now after all these big promises of increasing the defense budget not only is Olmert not delivering what he promised but instead he wants to cut the budget even more .. at this rate Israels millitary will look like a thrid world army using equipment that is long past its use by date, soilders and pilots who have so little training they end up getting themselves killed. Saudi Arabia last year spent more money on defense than Israel has spent on the IDF in nearly a deacde, Syria, Iran, Egypt and other states spending heavily on modern millitary equipment and training while Israel does the opposite Under Olmert though its not a surprise, the man snubbed a memorial service now he is cutting a budget last year he believed needed to be increased. Is this all about budgetinig for his retirement package?