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imperative for this department to eliminate wasteful, excessive and unneeded spending, to do everything we can to make every defense dollar count. gates faces immediate resistance to his planned cuts, especially the elimination of more than $14 billion program to buy an amphibious assault vehicle. joe, even republicans an boehner in his interview was saying, we can t not look at defense as a place to save money. paul ryan saying it. i think you re finding an awful lot of republicans starting to say it. what s going to be fascinating as we get into the 2012 election what republicans on the campaign trail, running for president, are going to have the guts to say. what richard just said, what we know, what historians know, what outside observers know, that the united states cannot keep fighting 20th century battles in the 21st century with hundreds of thousands of troops being flown across the globe. we have got to stop being an

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