AOL Defense: Chairman of Joint Chiefs Says Doomsday Cut Would 'Break' Military

[Patricia M. McBride]

The option where all departments see cuts will destroy our military and leave us defenseless pretty much.  Thank you congress and Obama!  This administration can't be voted out of office soon enough.  I am not sure our country can survive another year with him or 4 years of clinton who will be just like him (another progressive)!  We need a conservative, and someone who can fix the mess Obama is leaving behind and a couple of articles think once we find out everything, we will find it is far worse than we even know about.

 

By Carlo Munoz

Published: September 22, 2011

Washington: The outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pulled no punches during his last week on the job, saying today that the across-the-board defense cuts under the so-called "doomsday" scenario will break the military.

For the first time, Adm. Mike Mullen said this afternoon that if the Super Committee set up by the White House is forced to cut any more from national security coffers, the military simply would not survive.

"If you took a trillion dollars out of defense right now, that would break us," Mullen said during a speech to defense industry leaders in Washington today. So far, the Obama administration has committed to cuts of $450 billion over the next 10 years, including $315 billion mandated by the Budget Control Act that Congress passed in July to avert a national default. Add the $500 billion that would be automatically cut should the Super Committee fail to come up with a plan to cut $1.2 trillion and you get close to $1 trillion.

Mullen and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed their concern about deeper cuts to defense spending to the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier today.

Widespread reductions beyond the $450 billion already committed to by the Obama administration over the next decade would cause "catastrophic damage to military and ability to protect this country," Panetta told the panel.

At the morning hearing, Mullen was more subdued in his remarks, noting the threat of going past $315 billion "has forced us to look into the abyss" in terms of what could happen if the doomsday scenario did happen.

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