Iraqis too figure it is not a crime to pass around forged US Dollars. Or why else would they sell them right in the open market?
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“Before the push, vendors bought and sold the fake money openly on Iraqi streets at 5 cents on the dollar for the homemade kind and 20 cents on the dollar for the harder-to-detect notes. The bills were so pervasive that they even turned up on American military bases via Iraqi subcontractors.”
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Americans blame Iran, but I like to think somebody in Iraq read Defending the Undefensible and went for it.