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Title: Pentagon chief warns he won’t accept spending cuts ( Spunds Like The MIC Is Telling The Civilians to Keep Slaving Away)
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Published: Aug 4, 2011
Author: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/04/pe
Post Date: 2011-08-04 19:40:28 by tom007
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Pentagon chief warns he won’t accept spending cuts By Agence France-Presse Thursday, August 4th, 2011 -- 5:10 pm Print 5 Tags: barack obama, leon panetta, pentagon chief WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Thursday he would not accept large military cutbacks under a debt deal, charging the move would weaken the United States faced with rising powers. Panetta, holding his first formal news conference since taking charge of the Pentagon a month ago, launched a pre-emptive strike as a special committee prepares to slash spending under a last-ditch deal to avert a US debt default. Panetta, a veteran Democratic Party dealmaker who was once in charge of budgets, said that "God willing" the process would not trigger sweeping cuts under which the Pentagon could lose another $600 billion. Such cuts "I believe would do real damage to our security, our troops and their families and our military's ability to protect the nation," Panetta said. "It is an outcome that would be completely unacceptable to me as secretary of defense, to the president and, I believe, to our nation's leaders," he said. Defense spending, which has doubled since the September 11 attacks a decade ago, accounts for 20 percent of the overall federal budget. The United States spent some $700 billion last year on defense, far more than any other country. President Barack Obama is planning to withdraw the last US troops from Iraq at the end of this year and pull combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. US forces killed terror leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May and Panetta recently said a strategic defeat of Al-Qaeda is within reach. Panetta insisted the United States still needed a robust defense to "bring those wars to a stable conclusion" and to face threats from Iran and North Korea which both have controversial nuclear programs. In a likely allusion to China, Panetta said: "Then the responsibility is obviously to be able to project our power in the world in order to make sure rising powers understand that the United States still has a strong defense." The debt deal signed into law by Obama on Tuesday calls for at least $2.1 trillion in cuts in government spending over 10 years. The White House said military spending will fall by $350 billion in the first round of $917 billion in cuts, in line with Pentagon expectations. A special congressional committee has been created to come up with a second round of $1.5 trillion in further cuts from all areas. But if the bipartisan committee fails, then cuts of $1.2 trillion would automatically come into force -- divided evenly between military and non-military spending. Panetta stopped short of threatening to resign if the committee fails and triggers sweeping cuts, saying: "I didn't come into this job to quit; I came into this job to fight." Most observers believe the committee is unlikely to approve such major defense cuts on its own as Obama's opponents in the Republican Party are eager to preserve military spending.
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Military money on chopping block in austere time
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
1. Bring our troops home from the sandboxes/Africa/Europe/Asia. 2. Cut off all military aid to the rest of the planet and ask Israel to give everything back (just to piss them off). 3. Evict all JEWS from the Pentagon and out of all of the military services. The savings from my plan will allow for generous cuts to the Pentagon that they will never miss once they focus on exclusively defending America.
that is a good start
It's this idiotic, "we've got to look after Israel" attitude that's causing China, Russia, Iran, etc., to build up their militaries even while much preferring to concentrate on trade of goods and technology. This stooge is an example of problem creation rather than being part of a solution.
With a very serious perspective, I agree with Panetta; America can't just cut the defense budget. The Congress MUST cut the missions all around the world, too.
"In a free society we're supposed to know the truth," ... "In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it" -- Ron Paul, circa 2010-12-02
What a joke, Leon. eff this insane spending.
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-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
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Panetta: I came into this job to fight."
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-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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The Fed EXPOSED!!! The FARO RESERVE BANK!!!
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