Shortly before U.S. forces began streaming across the Iraqi border, commencing Persian Gulf War II, the CIA and the Department of Defense, with a
little help from Israel and some Europeans, pulled off a massive bank heist in Iraq to the tune of several billion dollars
Well since we like spending more than we have, it wouldn't surpise me that our government would do something like that. After all taxing the hard
working American citizen just isn't enough for them.