While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), claims to have “bulletproof” evidence of a connection between dictator Saddam Hussein, of Iraq, and the al-Qaida (Arabic for “the Base”) terrorist network.

       [added 11/19/2023]

Subsequent Events:

10/7/2002                   11/14/2002                   2/5/2003                  10/30/2003

References:

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 231.

t r u t h o u t – The Selling of the Iraq War
rempost.blogspot.com/2005/12/selling-of-iraq-war-first-casualty.html

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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