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January 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The cuts would represent less than 10 per cent of the current annual defence
budget of $650 billion and US spending would still be larger than that of
the next 10 countries combined.
In a bid to pre-empt election-year Republican criticism, Defence Secretary
Leon Panetta said the plan shifts the Pentagon’s focus from the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan to future challenges in Asia, the Midddle East and in
cyberspace. More special operations forces like the Navy Seals who killed
Osama bin Laden will be available around the world, he said.
Mr Panetta said: “This will be a test of whether reducing the deficit is about
talk or action. We are at a strategic turning point after a decade of war
and substantial growth in defence budgets.” The Defence Department’s budget
accounts for about 20 per cent of total US federal spending.
Some Republicans sharply criticised the plan. Senator John McCain said it
“ignored the lessons of history” by imposing massive military cuts.
And Senator John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee that
will hold hearings on the Pentagon’s budget plan, said: “Taking us back to a
pre-9/11 military force structure places our country in grave danger.”
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