Washington, DC - Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe says proposed defense budget cuts by the Obama Administration are essentially disarming the country.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the budget cuts today, including cuts to the Future Combat System, which would eliminate a mobile cannon that was to be assembled in Elgin near Fort Sill.

"I cannot believe what I heard today," Inhofe says. "President Obama is disarming America. Never before has a president so ravaged the military at a time of war."

"Here in Afghanistan, while the war is intensifying and the number of US forces increases at the direction of President Obama, he undercuts those he sends into harm’s way," Inhofe adds. "It is not just unbelievable…it is unconscionable."