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dharmabum
05-02-2007, 06:27 PM
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I cannot recommend this book (http://www.amazon.com/Armed-Madhouse-Baghdad-Orleans-Sordid-Secrets/dp/0452288312/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_img/102-7051836-6665729)highly enough to anyone who is interested in what is really going on in our country!

Investigative Reporter Greg Palast came out with a new, expanded version that includes a new chapter on what happened to the refugees from Katrina.

http://www.amazon.com/Armed-Madhouse-Baghdad-Orleans-Sordid-Secrets/dp/0452288312/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_img/102-7051836-6665729

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Phyrex
05-02-2007, 09:14 PM
Includes enhanced CD!?!?! How can I resist?

Frogger
05-02-2007, 09:23 PM
And just look at some of the names on the cover, Ed Asner, Randi Rhodes, Jim Hightower, Lary David. With fairminded people like that the book must be well balanced.

LionelHutz
05-02-2007, 09:25 PM
And just look at some of the names on the cover, Ed Asner, Randi Rhodes, Jim Hightower, Lary David. With fairminded people like that the book must be well balanced.

You forgot Jello Biafra!

dharmabum
05-03-2007, 07:19 PM
And just look at some of the names on the cover, Ed Asner, Randi Rhodes, Jim Hightower, Lary David. With fairminded people like that the book must be well balanced.

It is a very good piece of investigative journalism. Well worth reading, no matter what your politician affiliation is.

moderate
05-03-2007, 09:59 PM
Here is someone elses take on the book:

Angered at Bad Journalism, NOT a Republican!, 07/15/2006
A House of Cards Built on a Beach
I am aparently a part of a microscopic minority when I say how deeply disappointed I am by this book and those who are so quickly willing to take its claims at face-value. I'm not saying not to read it, but keep an open mind if you do. This book is so loaded with impeachable material to have Dubyah and friends slingshot into the cold vacuum of space, yet it has done NOTHING. Why? This book is so steeped in a lack of context and tracable source material that it has all the bark and bite of a toothless poodle yelping through a stadium-quality sound system. I don't refer to the 'secret' documents, or legions of Deepthroats who have confided in Palast to blow the lid off this. Instead, look at the rest of the material, such as the histories and chain of events leading to his conclusions. Hardly ever a citation, but there are a few. Of course, the vagueness of the acknowledgements section does nothing more than raise more questions...Nothing more than a list of fellow renegade journalists and lawyers who have taken up camp with their illustrious leader. I recommend borrowing it from a friend, or taking it out of your library. Don't be fooled into buying it, like me.

dharmabum
05-04-2007, 11:17 AM
Here is someone elses take on the book:


A link might be nice.

Frogger
05-04-2007, 11:22 AM
A link is sort of like a citation, right, you know, the citations that weren't in the book.:lolhit:

dharmabum
05-06-2007, 08:52 PM
A link is sort of like a citation, right, you know, the citations that weren't in the book.

You never read the book.
Therefore, You have no idea what you are talking about.