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From Reutors:
"I think this country has to deal with the reality of the situation that we're confronting," Panetta said in a pre-recorded interview. "We're coming out of a decade of war. We're facing a huge budget crisis in this country. The Congress said ... we have to reduce the defense budget by $487 billion."<snip>
"I think the message that the world needs to understand is: America is the strongest military power and we intend to remain the strongest military power and nobody ought to mess with that," he said.<snip>
He also noted that the U.S. defense budget also would still be by far the world's largest - roughly the size of the next largest defense budgets combined.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-worlds-strongest-military-despite-cuts-panetta-141456731.html
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Good news. The defense budget needs to be downsized.
ladywnch
(2,672 posts)if you look at the excerpt posted it is very clear he (Panetta) is quoting Congress not making a statement of his belief.......the whole, .....The Congress said ... we have to reduce the defense budget by $487 billion."<snip> , should have been the clue.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)so we can assume he agreed with it... right?
great white snark
(2,646 posts)Never ending wars, slaves to the MIC and all that. No way the budget gets cut...DUers in the know have said so. Repeatedly.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)They will continue to parse words to "prove" their point.