Norman D. Dicks: “I worry about the future of Russia, and they still have nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons are not pointed at…”

“I worry about the future of Russia, and they still have nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons are not pointed at anybody else. We may have them off target for 5 minutes. All I would say is and then we look at Iran, Iraq, we look at North Korea, look at emerging China, and I would tell the gentleman I think, and if he looks at the program we are trying to fund and sending these kids everywhere in the world, to Haiti, to Bosnia, and to everything else, we are, the military today is more deployed than it has been, and we have cut the money by $100 billion. Now we cannot have it both ways. We cannot ask these kids to go out there and not adequately train them, adequately equip them, and I think it would be a great mistake to cut this $4 billion out in a meat ax approach here on the floor when we have got people who have always been opposed to defense, who were opposed to it during the cold war.”