What that money bought is the subject of this account. Foreign state money in; export licenses, regulatory surrender, and a pardon out. The same Gulf capital that bought the coin and the chips runs, along a second channel, straight into the wars. The men who counseled a war sat, at the very moment they counseled it, atop billions of dollars belonging to the Gulf monarchies that wanted the war fought. The president has told the country, of the men whose money moved through every link of it, that he does not know who they are.