Leon Panetta actually said...

It is clear that achieving these savings will be very hard and require difficult tradeoffs for the Department and the country.

I want to be clear that, obviously, any future security relationship in Iraq will be different from the one that we've had since 2003.

I want to caution strongly against further cuts to defense as we go through that, particularly with the mechanism that's been built into the...

I made very clear to them that that was unacceptable.