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William Seger

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7. Why don't you take a few minutes...
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 09:42 AM
Nov 2015

... to read something other than "truther" propaganda about the $2.3 trillion? Here's a site that's pretty useful when shoveling "truther" bullshit: http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Missing_Trillions

Here's what Rumsfeld was really talking about:

In fiscal 1999, a defense audit found that about $2.3 trillion of balances, transactions and adjustments were inadequately documented. These "unsupported" transactions do not mean the department ultimately cannot account for them, she advised, but that tracking down needed documents would take a long time. Auditors, she said, might have to go to different computer systems, to different locations or access different databases to get information.

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44199


The idea that this is why Rumsfeld attacked the Pentagon is Grade A Bullshit. And this is the typical pattern found when you look into claims made by the "truth movement": The claims that have some basis in fact don't really prove anything, and the claims that seem to prove an "inside job" aren't factual. That's what typically happens if you start with a conclusion and sift through the evidence trying to cobble together an argument that sounds like you've reached a logical conclusion, but your conclusion is simply wrong.

And, by the way, your "attention span of 3 minutes" comment displays a typical "woo woo" behavior of convincing yourself that your opponents just don't know enough to reach the same conclusion as you, when in fact your real adversaries are people who know more than you.


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k/r Honneger has done excellent work nationalize the fed Nov 2015 #1
On 911 the first news I heard about the attacks milestogo Nov 2015 #3
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Really? William Seger Nov 2015 #5
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Why don't you take a few minutes... William Seger Nov 2015 #7
who runs that horseshit site william? wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #8
The sources of all the information on that site are very carefully cited William Seger Nov 2015 #9
k & r & thanks! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #2
K&R n/t Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2015 #10
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