While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), predicts that Iraq’s oil revenues “can finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

       [added 12/9/2023]

Subsequent Events:

5/16/2003                   11/6/2003                   5/13/2004

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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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