Former Secretary of State backs US military cuts

Just think if we could refocus these funds on infrastructure, health care and education…

Trying to maintain an outdated Military Industrial Complex helped bring down the Soviet Union.  I hope someone remembers that….

The US military’s budget should be considered for cuts as current overseas operations wind down, a former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush said Sunday.

“As we draw down from Iraq and as over the next several years as we draw down from Afghanistan, I see no reason why the military shouldn’t be looked at,” Colin Powell told CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.”

He continued, “When the Cold War ended 20 years ago, when I was chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and Mr. Cheney was secretary of Defense, we cut the defense budget by 25 percent. And we reduced the force by 500,000 active duty soldiers, so it can be done.”

Powell, a retired four-star general in the United States Army, is among a growing number of voices in Washington advocating cuts to the $700 billion annual defense budget.

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