Obama’s Own Defense Secretary Says Military Cuts Will Create Risks

PANETTA SAYS CUTS WILL HURT ‘AMERICA’S CAPABILITY TO RESPOND’ TO THREATS

Politics? Nope. Feisty rhetoric from a Republican presidential candidates debate? Uh uh. Admissions from Barack Obama’s own Secretary of Defense? Yep.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today that the cuts in defense proposed by Mr. Obama will create “risks” in America’s “capability to respond” to threats.

“The risks come with the fact that, you know, we will have a smaller force,” Panetta said at a Pentagon briefing: “As we said, it’s larger than we had prior to 9/11, but obviously it will be a smaller force, and when you have a smaller force there are risks associated with that in terms of our capability to respond.”

WTF?

Worse? Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed Panetta’s assessment, pointing out that once the Regime’s cuts in defense are implemented, there will be risk that the U.S. military will not be able to respond as quickly as it now can.

“The primary risks lie not in what we can do, but in how much we can do and how fast we can do it,” said Dempsey: “The risks therefore, are in terms of time and capacity.”

Incredibly, Panetta conceded that the United States still faces “a number of very important threats in the world,” such as turmoil in the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran, North Korea and cyber warfare, but hey – we have class warfare to fight, right?

For Fiscal Year 2013, the Obama Regime will request $525 billion for the U.S. military’s base budget, which is down from $531 billion in FY 2012.

Priorities, America; wealth redistribution is an expensive proposition.

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Dark days, folks, dark days.