While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, in a joint press conference with Petros Molyviatis, Foreign Minister of Greece, says, “ [W]e have no better friend … than our friends in Greece.”

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References:

Mark Glassman, “U.S. Finds a Better Friend Every Time,” Orange County (California) Register, 11 May 2006, News:2.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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