Iraqi President Barham Salih: More than $150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt deals since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraqi President Barham Salih: More than $150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt deals since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
On this day, 2004, US Brigadier General David Rodriguez announced that US forces in Iraq would increase from 138,000 to around 150,000 by January for security reasons. However, there was no increase in security in Iraq, and it was only the costs, the death toll, and the intervention that increased.
