33 The Real Game of Missing Money VI. The War on Everyone (September 11, 2001–January 2006) “Rush hour cometh!” ~ Reverend Melvin Bufford, opening of Sunday sermon, September 16, 2001 “Cui bono?” ~ Title of Catherine’s first article on 9/11, published on September 17, 2001 As the propagandists love to say, on September 11, 2001, “the world changed.” Suddenly, money could pour out of both the front and back doors of the U.S. government into the military-indus- trial complex with abandon. America was going to war, and money was no object. DOD won an immediate $48 billion increase in appropriations. Suddenly, no one cared that there was $3.3 tril- lion missing from DOD and HUD. The spigot was open for fresh new cash. A recent estimate by Neta C. Crawford published by the Watson Institute at Brown University calculates that America has spent $5.9 trillion to date on the War on Terror, including war in the Middle East. Costs of war: United States budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars through FY2019: $5.9 trillion spent and obligated https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2018/Crawford_Costs%20 of%20War%20Estimates%20Through%20FY2019.pdf The Corbett Report did an excellent video to help illuminate the “financial coup d’état” aspects of 9/11. A great deal happened that day to make sure the trail on the money missing from DOD and HUD went cold, including bombing the offices of the largest mortgage and government securities dealers in the country, SEC and FBI offices in New York with ongoing investigations of Wall Street firms involved in the mortgage and securities fraud, as well as Office of Naval Intelli- gence (ONI) offices at the Pentagon that were investigating the missing money.