Commander-in-Chief Reagan issues National Security Decision Directive 114, pledging to do “whatever was legal and necessary” to prevent Iraq from losing the Iraqi-Iranian War.”

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Subsequent Events:

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 224.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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