Tom Cole actually said...

"I think you and your counterparts in the other services are making tough decisions because we haven't, as a Congress and an administration, made our tough decisions."

"we are also going to eliminate seven AWACS, and they are the entire Reserve capability that we have in that area."

"we don't deal with our entitlement crisis; we don't deal with the bigger fiscal issues in front of us."

"Nobody did politically on either side. I don't think the services did. And we stumbled into a really bad situation that you are having to deal with."