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  <title><![CDATA[Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild]]></title>
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  <default_description> In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national  bestseller &lt;I&gt;The Best Democracy Money Can Buy&lt;/I&gt;, once again gives us the straight scoop  on the stories that Big Media won't report. Digging up reams of documents marked &quot;secret&quot; and  &quot;confidential,&quot; Palast provides the latest lowdown on Bush's secret plans to seize Iraq's oil, the fix  planned for the 2008 election, who drowned New Orleans, and the horror and the humor of the  War on Terror. With diligent detective work, moral outrage, and a keen sense of the absurd,  Palast takes on the &quot;armed and dangerous clowns that rule us&quot; as only he can.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is another compendium of political and corporate con men who would sell your future and your children's future to the highest bidder (or give it away to their political friends).<br/><br/>Everyone thinks that George Bush had a secret plan to seize Iraq's oil. Actually, there were 2 secret pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4228394">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 11 08:42:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an informative and often insightful book that attempts to substantiate the notion that both the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq are primarily about oil, but in a way that stands opposed to many accounts reported in the alternative media and blogosphere.  Most interesting in this regar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15138076">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 08 02:24:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 07:52:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know Greg Palast, right?  You don’t know Greg!?!  You’re kidding me!  Pick this book up right now.  Palast is one of those rare combinations of really smart, very cool, and EXTREMELY FUNNY all rolled into one.  On top of all that, he’s actually a journalist who does this really strange thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14888637">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 04 21:06:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 14 15:21:03 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is excellent.  Made me laugh sometimes but more often it made me angry, frustrated and sad.  <br/><br/>I learned quite a bit about Big Oil, Neo-Cons, how the war in Iraq for some is a fight for oil and for others a fight to keep it in the ground.  I learned more about this Bush era and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14586310">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 25 17:46:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 25 17:54:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm torn between giving this one 4 stars (to me, a book I'd recommend heartily to people with similar interests) or 5 (a book that I'll be pushing into lots of hands and giving as gifts to get people to read it).  I'm settling on 4, though, because I'm sure the very partisan stance and snide tone wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5113997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18473570">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 23 19:39:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 23 19:48:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific investigative work from Palast as always.  What I like most about GP is that he is not partisan or PC, and is willing to dish it out to both parties (I'm one of those leftists who likes to see Clinton fans squirm uncomfortably).  Even more refreshingly, he takes the time to get past the usu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18473570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75864726">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 27 00:04:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 27 00:25:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Greg Palast's</em> <strong>Armed Madhouse</strong> was my <strong>666</strong>, June 6th 2006, purchase.  I got introduce to <em>Greg Palast</em> through being a fan of author <em>Brian Wood</em>.  I went to Woods blog site and read an article about the Right Wing Conservative movements cronyism and practice of buying other Right wing authors books.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75864726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28250773">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 07:13:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 25 07:15:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just remembered...wanted to mention this one. Read this one a while ago, but it's worth mentioning now because of the looming election. Palast is another client of Agent Diana, so perhaps there's a bias, but whatever. He's great. Read this now, though, before November, to get your head wrapped aroun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28250773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22567865">
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  <date_added>Mon May 19 13:39:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned is just how incredibly corrupt the Bush Whitehouse has been and continues to be!!! ARRGGHH - Would that I could close my eyes now that they've been opened!!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 23:31:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book details many of the down sides of the Bush presidency, going back to many documented and some new reports of election fraud from the 2000 and 2004 elections.  Some of the economic theories and free trade discussions need a little more explaination, and other policy failure discussions of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38201235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36113668">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 24 12:13:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Greg Palast is an investigative journalist from New Jersey who works for BBC News, telling stories there that American news media don't like to cover.  Palast is also a humorist, an outraged patriot, and his entertaining side too often upstages his journalist side.  The film-maker Michael Moore suff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36113668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32715776">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 29 07:32:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really is not a bad book. Part of the reason I gave it only two stars is because I am pretty much satiated when it comes to books about politics and the Bush administration (i.e. I don't need yet another person to tell me how bad Bush &amp; Co. are, since it only reminds me of the many bozos out th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32715776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29305083">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Palast is a very angry journalist and he wants people to know why.  To hear what they are not hearing about what is going on behind the scenes in this country, its corporations, politicians etc...  The nice thing is unlike a lot of journalists, he tries to get documents that support his argument...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29305083">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Investigative journalism of the satirical sort with wonderful connections made between the hoi poloi in the USA and Saudia Arabia. Ever wondered why the bin Ladens never get caught? Why Rummy went to Baghdad to the delight of Saddam? Why all the bin Ladens got out of Boston the day after 9/11? Greg ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44160753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39693678">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 13:22:55 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It makes so much more sense now... <br/>I've always wondered about some of the inconsistencies in the run-up and execution of the Iraq War (e.g. why was Chalabi first admired and then reviled by the administration). Greg Palast, in his inimitable style (may be a little bit too familiar language for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39693678">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Greg Palast is one of the last true journalists around - he actually does the long, laborious research, asks the ugly questions to people with something to hide, and then exposes the ugly, sordid mess in it's stark and acrid totality. Budding journalists must often hear of journalistic principles an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34013358">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[took me 4 months to read, but it was worth it.   Interesting ideas and theories...and facts.  I wonder who the hell talks to this guy, and then, why is this guy not on America's radar?  I enjoyed that part regarding the competing ideas about post-war Iraq.  The vote stealing portion of the book was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48513021">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 15:13:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 15:16:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Obviously biased, but I knew that going in.  Books like this on the right or the left are probably a waste of time.  Debates are more informative.  I waste more of my time reading books I agree with though, which is probably even a bigger waste of time.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Tegan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 25 16:26:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 13:45:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd like to start by saying that Greg Palast's writing style drives me mad. He writes like he talks—in rapid spurts, jumping from topic to topic without the slightest explanation of where his rambling story is headed or why he's telling it in the first place.<br/><br/>If you can somehow mine you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16351942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 22 20:55:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 22 20:55:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yep, this book makes you hate a lot of aspects of our current government set-up.  Palast does an amazing job of laying out just how many-splendored the way are The Man is screwing us.  Sometimes the facts are just too damn much, but if you're willing to wade through it, it is still a riveting read. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13227762">more...</a>]]></body>
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