Leon Panetta actually said...

I made very clear to them that that was unacceptable.

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

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