Leon Panetta: “Sequestration and the cuts involved in sequestration would be a disaster for the Defense Department and would truly…”

But the facts speak for themselves.

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.

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.