Despite Al Qaeda Threat, U.S. Not Planning to Expand Terror Fight in Yemen

[CharlieKilo]

As AQ did not exist during the Afghan war, and the CIA, via the ISI, did not support Bin Laden, as they did seven groups during that war, the above poster is thoroughly full of shit.

You are right about Al Qaeda not existing during the Afghan war with the Russians. At that time it was the Mujahideen. It is that overall group that morphed in to what everyone believes is AQ. That said, the Mujahideen were trained by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission). His intelligence ties run deep.

That said, OBL is absolutely a CIA asset, at this point I don't see how anyone can question that.

Former FBI Translator: Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Right Up Until 9/11

You can believe whatever the hell you want...the facts are not dependent on your understanding of them.

[CharlieKilo]

We could afford 10 fronts if we wanted to.


Just the majority of the budget goes to social programs and debt than defense spending. We spend more on SS in a year than we have on Iraq since 2003.

What? You can't be serious. I mean sure, we can borrow money infinitely from the FED as long as they allow us, but that is far from affording shit.

The Bush Admin spent $1+ Trillion (More money than all other administrations previously combined) during its term...I can assure you this is not because Social Security payments went up.

The Obama Admin has probably already spent that and then some.

Fuzzy math?

[rickrock305]

We could afford 10 fronts if we wanted to.


Just the majority of the budget goes to social programs and debt than defense spending. We spend more on SS in a year than we have on Iraq since 2003.

WRONG

For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on "overseas contingency operations" brings the sum to $663.8 billion.

When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009 the final size of the Department of Defense's budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than Obama had requested. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff expected an additional supplemental spending bill, possibly in the range of $40-50 billion, by the Spring of 2010 in order to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010

[glocktogo]

Off topic, but is anyone else bothered that we spend our largest percentage of federal funds on health care? Are we really that sickly as a nation?

Seems to me it's only going to get worse.

[GMZ]

WRONG

Uhh, you just proved your self wrong there buddy. He said SS vs Iraq, not SS vs the entire defense budget. I lump Medicare/Medicaid along with SS as a social program, add in interest and it is 54% and thus a majority.

Off topic, but is anyone else bothered that we spend our largest percentage of federal funds on health care? Are we really that sickly as a nation?

Seems to me it's only going to get worse.

Not really sick, we are attempting to halt nature's way by trying to keep old people from dying. People get old, they get sick, and then die. Trying to keep the boomers alive may just about bankrupt us, which is why they want the healthy youths to subsidize the boomers care by paying the same premiums.

[CharlieKilo]

A White House spokesman said the Iraq war had cost the U.S. $406.2 billion through December 2007 and could potentially reach $3 Trillion including factors such as future disability payments for injured veterans, interest payments on money borrowed to finance the war, and the costs resulting from disrupted oil markets.