While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” in testimony to the house armed service committee, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), says, ” [N]o terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq” (emphasis added).

       [restored 11/19/2023] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

9/16/2002                   9/26/2002                  2/7/2003                  3/14/2004

References:

Donald Rumsfeld – Wikiquote.mht
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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