Leon Panetta: “Facing such large reductions, we would have to reduce the size of the military sharply.”

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.

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

But the facts speak for themselves.