Right, the next tune you choose to dance to? Your account is empty the trust fund is a fund in name only. The Democrats blew one trillion dollars on social progarms in the 60's. our money was gone when we were just starting our careers and the people responsible have long since retired spent thier money and ours are most are dead so we can't even blame them now that the damage is coming to a head.

I am getting tired of your insults without foundation. The point is that you fail to notice is that at one time the social security account number represented a personal account with your money in it. After 1967 it did not. You blame Mr. Bush for the failure of social security and I point out that the failure happened in 1967. you can play semantics but the meaning remains the same.

Paladin77

Anyone that is shown the facts, which I posted directly from the dept. of the Treasury and then continues to deny those facts is just DUMB!
The Trust funds do exist and Bush did add over a Trillion dollars of IOU’s to those Trust funds because of the budget deficit he created.

Glad you understand!

only in your minds gentlemen. it's the same portable punditry that makes those claims every time. big whoop...the COL could put up 100 indisputable facts on "fact day" and they could all come down, sit on your face and wiggle, and ya'll would still claim ya proved him wrong...the neoconservative "smear over and over" methods wore thin a long time ago...but not in your minds. but when that's all ya know, i guess we shouldn't expect anything more.

the col's articles may be biased, and from a liberal perspective. and i'm sure he makes the occasional mistake like anyone. but claims that anyone has definitevely proved him wrong "on almost every article" is a joke. i have read so many threads that the neocons insist they have "proven him wrong" but actually don't do anything of the sort. just alot of mutual ass slappin and high fivin from the punditry. just cause you hate what he says, doesn't make them any less truthful. and anyway, no one has been proven wrong more in the last 6 years than the administration.

of course, i'm sure i'll get ridiculed for going against the vocal, neoconservative majority here @ JU....flame on...that all wore thin a long time ago.

have a nice day:)

drmiler

YOU HAVE NEVER PROVEN ME WRONG ION ANYTHING!!!!! PROVE IT!

drmiler YOU HAVE NEVER PROVEN ME WRONG ION ANYTHING!!!!! PROVE IT!

Just go back over your articles klink, and you'll find what you seek.

You stated there was no yellow cake in Iraq, and you were shown to be incorrect.

Like 500 meteric tons of the stuff. And if I'm not mistaken..."I'm" the one that put that proof out!

So now, who has "never" proven who wrong?

The trust funds "exist" in the same sense that your checking account "exists". That doesn't make your checking account a "trust fund". They are accounts for the receipt & disbursement of funds, more or less set up like money market accounts. There was a time that they were "off the books" accounts that sort of met the common-sense definition of a "trust fund" but that hasn't been the case for years.

And now the col will start a new article saying the same things as if the facts presented never happened. This is usual for him when proven wrong.

And he talks about someone living i a dream world.

LOL.

There were no training camps in Iraq and 9/11

"This" has been proven wrong so many times that it ain't funny any more.

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Or this section from wikipedia:

See also: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida Osama bin Laden first took interest in Iraq when the country invaded Kuwait in 1990, raising concerns the secular Baathist government of Iraq might next set its sights on Saudi Arabia, homeland of bin Laden and Islam itself. In a letter sent to King Fahd, he offered to send an army of mujahedeen to defend Saudi Arabia.[54] During the Gulf War, the organization's interests became split between outrage with the intervention of the United Nations in the region, hatred of Saddam Hussein's secular government, and concern for the suffering of Islamic people in Iraq. Many scholars claim that the alleged link between Saddam's regime and al-Qaida (which substantiated the WMD justification for the Iraq invasion) was non-existent and exaggerated.[citation needed] Whether or not al-Qaida was operating in any substantial way in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion is debatable. However, it must be noted that the killing & capture of al-Qaida fighters and leaders by Iraqi & Coalition forces are a near daily occurence in Iraq, many of whom fled Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. Al-Qaida was in contact with the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-islam from its inception in 1999. Several Afghan veterans, Arab and Kurd, entered the enclave controlled by Ansar al-Islam from Iran. Among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who left the Kurdish zone before the allied invasion in 2003. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri), al-Zarqawi's replacement and the current leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is believed to have been in Iraq before the 2003 invasion as well. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, al-Qaida took more formal interest in the region and is known to have been responsible for actively organizing and aiding local resistance to the occupying coalition forces and the emerging government. Militant allies of al-Qaeda bombed both the local United Nations and Red Cross headquarters later that year. In 2004, the main al-Qaida bases in Iraq were raided by U.S. forces besieging Fallujah. Despite the loss of these key positions and many of its fighters, al-Qaeda continued to mount attacks across Iraq. During Iraq's elections in January 2005, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for nine suicide blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The majority of the suicide bombings and SVBIED (Suicidal Vehicle-Born Improvised Explosive Device, commonly referred to as "Car Bomb") attacks occuring in Iraq are commited by foreign al-Qaida recruits, many crossing through the Syrian border into Iraq. Al-Qaida's suicide attacks in Iraq have targeted mostly Iraqi Security and Coalition forces, and Shiite civilians. But as of late, they are increasingly targeting Iraqi Sunnis who are in growing numbers joining the fight against al-Qaida. Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi formally merged his organization "Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad" with al-Qaeda on 17 October 2004, and the organization began to use the banners of "Al-Qaida in Iraq". In the merger, al-Zarqawi declared loyalty to Osama bin Laden. Al-Zarqawi was killed by U.S. air strikes on a safe house near Baqubah, Iraq on June 7, 2006. Before his death, it appears al-Zarqawi was trying to use Iraq as a launching pad for international terrorism, most notably dispatching suicide bombers to attack hotels in Amman, Jordan. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was known to be in contact with several top al-Qaida leaders, most notably his correspondence with the Egyptian Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. Since the killing of al-Zarqawi, it is widely believed Abu Ayyub al-Masri took over as head of al-Qaida in Iraq. Although the group has failed in its primary goal of driving U.S. and British forces from Iraq and destroying the Shiite-dominated government elected by the people of Iraq, al-Qaida in Iraq has effectively ignited widespread sectarian violence across the country. Al-Qaida in Iraq now operates primarily as part of the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni militant groups in Iraq who resist solidarity with Shiites, and vow to continue resistance. On September 3, 2006 the second-in-command of al-Qaida in Iraq, Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi (also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana), was arrested north of Baghdad, along with a group of his aides and followers.[55]

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For Gene who won't read the Weekly Standard link

THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.

The secret training took place primarily at three camps--in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak--and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria's GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.



The nation of Niger is not covered by our national secrets act of 1947 and the information was not classified for them. They publicly stated that agents from the nation Iraq was trying to buy the yellow cake from them as it is their chief export item. They were turned down out of fear of getting on the wrong side of the UN and the USA. This makes it hard to say the information was manipulated or leaked from the current administration since it was a news release from another nation not the US. Just because it got a paragraph buried somewhere in the NYT story and other news agencies does not mean it was not out there for people to see if they looked. I think AP ran a paragraph as well.