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Congress, then there are automatic cuts and 50% of that falls across defense, homeland security, the intelligence, agency he is of the government. and it would be pretty devastating and the biggest reason is that this year, the current year we're in, 2012, as we call at the federal level. >> right. >> we already are making the department of defense take $465 billion worth of cuts. so, to put another 600 billion starting in 2013 on the department of defense, i think would be devastating. do we have a little to give the super committee? maybe. i've been one of those people trying to give them so...

Little bit earlier, this discussion, taking the savings from both of the wars and counting that toward the require respect that the super committee has. is that a gimmick? >> well, first of all, we will be out of iraq by december 31st of this year. but, again, we have to find $465 billion in this fiscal year. having started october 1st going through this next september 30th. a lot of that is already accounted for. and also remember, we have these troops returning. they are going to have a lot of mental issues. they are going to have health problems. some of that money has to go in that directi...

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