While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto Vice President Richard B. Cheney (having received an advantage of 52 unlawful Electoral votes) on the National Broadcasting Company’s new interview program Meet the Press, predicts the upcoming Iraqi-American War will only cost 100,000,000,000 “dollars.”  Cheney also tell the host Tim Russert, “Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”

       Postscript: The Iraqi-American War cost at least 3,000,000,000,000 “dollars”—30 times Cheney’s estimate.

       [added 12/9/2023]