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eliminate the military  Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) Sen. Jim Inhofe
(R-OK) Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images  On March 6th, 2014,
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) explained during the broadcast of
Washington Watch to Family Research Council president Tony
Perkins that the recently unveiled Pentagon budget "has the
effect of killing our young Americans in combat."  The budget
cuts, which will ultimately amount to a less than 1% cut of the
Pentagon's $550 billion budget, were proposed to reflect both a
national deficit and the increasing impracticality of a massive
military force in the 21st century.  Inhofe, on the other hand,
would much prefer to see the budget cuts as some sort of
conspiracy by President Obama, whom Inhofe claims probably
doesn't want to have a military at all.  "A real liberal in his
heart doesn't think you need a military anyway," Inhofe
insisted. "I know people that would never admit that, but people
I have served with here in the United Stat