Leon Panetta: “The responsibility of dealing with this crisis rests with the leadership of the Nation.”

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.

And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.

I think the House, both the Speaker, the Republicans, the Democrats, have to come together to now move this supplemental. It is critical to the message we send to the world about U.S. world leadership.

Make no mistake about it, that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security.