America exports it's corruption to Iraq
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This book not only describes the cost of the Iraq War long term, but explains how billions of dollars were wasted in Iraq due to the total corruption of the Bush administration, starting with Bush refusing to allow open bidding on the contracts to rebuild Iraq.  Those contract then went to his or the Vice President's cronies.  In addition the Bush administration makes no mention of the long term costs of the injured soldiers returning from Iraq.  Bush has also lied to the American people about the number of injured soldiers and after being caught on the government's own web site, they took the site down.
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This is an insiders telling of $40 billion in aid from the United States to the Pakistan government from 1947 to 2012. The aid was used to fund Pakistans wars with India, Pakistans atomic bombs, the training and export of terrorist groups and propaganda aimed at spreading hatred of America. In return the United States diplomats had the privilege of listening to Pakistan diplomats tell the Americans what the Americans wanted to hear. While it may not seem like a good bargain it does make for a well told tale that is recommended reading.
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This is not the first man who came out of the Bush administration criticizing it and also writing a book about it.  He explains how the war in Iraq was not necessary and in doing so makes us realize that Bush and his counterparts are responsible for many needless deaths and injuries over there.  Unfortunately, we can see this country headed for another Vietnam which is making us the laughing stock of the world.  Scott obviously had a conscience which made him write a book about a man who does not, and it took a great moral fortitude to do so.  We need more great Americans like him to blow the whistle on corrupt administrations.  This book is great reading for everyone's list.  I very much enjoyed reading it. It just goes to show that just because you go to bed with fleas does not always mean you have to get up with fleas!
3321109
Excellent book.  The truth about what America does to other countries to get their resources is frightening and horrifying.  Reads like a novel.  This should be required reading for every American;  people would be able to create change for the better if they were aware of the atrocities our government and especially our corporations are perpetrating.  After reading this book from the library, I purchased a copy so I could share it with others who were as unaware as myself.  Also a must read is John Perkins The Secret History of the American Empire.
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This book nails the corruption that is alive in our country. If you want to wake up and see how corrupt the system is, this book is a must read. Trump uses common sense approach to bring this country back to the America that I grew up in. If you are a true American, vote Trump to Make America Great Again!
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This is a tell all story of the wickedness of Bush Jr, and how he sould pay for his crimes against the human race, this book will show you how Bush Jr, used his daddy's influence to avoid going to Vietnam, how he manipulated the law to steal two elections and how he used the US Goverment to declare war on two nations just to keep his bosses at the big corporations happy. If there's any real justice in this world the Bushes, both Sr and Jr, would be in prison serving hard time for their sins. Enough written and keep on reading.
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This book is the best one I have ever read in relation to the Bush Dynasty and its impact on an unsuspecting USA.
The corruption and dishonesty this family had let loose on the world is beyond belief.
Everyone should read this to get an insight in what could happen when anarchy is allowed to manifest.
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This beautifully written play unfortunately serves as a smokescreen for the real betrayal of the Iraq war: that was promoted in response to the bogus attacks of 9-11-2001 that were falsely blamed on Iraq.

Packer could serve a much wider cause of justice by using his journalistic skills to expose the cynical lies behind this Zionist false flag attack.

But like 99.9% of America's journalistic brotherhood, Packer prefers to let sleeping dogs lie.

In the end Packer himself betrays the trust of his readers.

Nevertheless, I have given this a 5 star rating since it effectively portrays the cynicism with which the US occupation forces in Iraq used Iraquis. It at least opens up a window to the world of corruption that characterizes US foreign policy.
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This book is still for sale by

the very fine Institute for

Historical Review. You can also

get it @ alibris.com. It is a

primary example of why ALL FOR-

EIGN AID MUST STOP! Especially

to Israel, the Zionist/New

World Order/UN puppet state

in the middle east! And while

you're at it, get out of Iraq

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"Let freedom of the press ring!!!
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Holy S***!  An eye opening experience that exhibits the laziness, oversight and needless extravagance that has seemingly taken over American Diplomatic duties abroad.
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A learning experience, on the ground in Iraq. My one and only beef is that there are no maps and no pictures.

Engels, on page 327, himself admits to having a thing for maps. "When ever I want to explain the situation in Iraq, I feel compelled to draw maps." "I am also convince maps are essential to understanding the war in Iraq, which has always been more about geography, religion, and power than democracy. If you know where the Shiites, Sunnis, and the Kurds live, it's easy to understand their struggles for dominance. If you see on paper how Iran is wedged between U.S. bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf, it helps explain why Tehran's foreign policy seems so aggressive. From where Iran sits, it looks like the country is being surrounded, which it is."

UPDATE
When Richard Engel asked Pres. Bushes how long we would be in Iraq, Bush shot back "This is the great war of our times. It is going to take forty years"
I was wondering how Bush arrived at that particular number. Well...

A week later while finishing up reading "Why Presidents Fail: White House Decision Making from Eisenhower to Bush II" by Richard M. Pious  - I came across that FORTY YEARS. It explains where Bushs forty years comes from.

It's in Chapter 9,  Parallel Governance: Bush and Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, under Petropolitics on page 237 it says

"After the war the American government pressed Iraq to conclude "Production Service Agreements" with American oil companies, which would lock in the right to exploit the fields on favorable terms for up to FORTY YEARS (caps are mine) (73). The American government pressed the Iraqi parliament to pass an oil law (which as of late 2007it had not done yet) that would allow private companies to exploit 85 percent of the Iraqi fields, leaving only 15 percent to be developed by the Iraqi National Oil Company. The total value of the oil could be as much as 30 trillion (74). Control of this much oil would allow the United States to put downward pressure on the OPEC price cartel. The United States was building five superbases in Iraq, and after the "Surge" of 2007 was planning to leave perhaps as many as 35,000 troops in the region, including rapid reaction forces that could be used to protect the oil fields."

(73). Joshua Holland, "Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil," Alternet.org (Oct. 16, 2006)
(74) Jim Holt, "It's the Oil," London Review of Books (Oct. 18, 2007)
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With this book and others I'm slowly getting an idea of what's going on.

Other related books I've read and recommend;
*Nasr, Vali - The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
*Stewart, Rory -  The Prince of the Marshes
*Bostom, Andrew G. - The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non- Muslims
*Heikal, Mohamed - Iran: The Untold Story
*Thesiger, Wilfred - The Last Nomad
*Arnove, Anthony - Iraq: the logic of withdrawal
*Galbraith. Peter W. - The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End

Indirectly
*Pious,  Richard M. - Why Presidents Fail: White House Decision Making from Eisenhower to Bush II
*Ansary, Tamin Mir - West of Kabul, East of New York:
*Horwitz, Tony -- Baghdad without a map, and other misadventures in Arabia.
*Yahia, Mona - When the Grey beetles took over Baghdad: Fiction, but give you some what of an idea of being jewish in Bagdad '60-70
*We're All Men Here by John Flanagan Fiction, but author taught for a decade in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq)
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This crucial pillar, a strategy against corruption, that has been left out of the design for foreign forays of business, charity and stability is finally revealed comprehensively and viscerally to the financiers as to the "WHY" of our failures abroad. Historically documented and daily demonstrated, corruption is the corrosion of civilization and the demise of every morality we personally aspire to live under.  This book should be a must read for all US trained Officers, Agents and NGO employees. Hopefully this will prove the catalyst for much needed doctrinal change.
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After reading the book, I just can't believe how the American people could have been so blind to all the corruption and lies of this couple.  I would like for everyone to read it before the next election.  I am just horrified after reading it.
4679787
Years ago I was introduced to the corruption within our government when I printed out "Operation Northwoods."
Since then I obtained a book written by US Undersecretary George Ball titled, "The Passionate Attachment." The book was published in 1992 and was shut down by lobbying interests. Ball's book carefully describes years where our politicians were either intimidated or bought out by Jewish lobbying groups. These lobbying interest had the best interest of Israel in mind and not that of the US.
 A book written by chalmers johnson, "Blowback" desribes how we gained the resentment in many parts of the world by our mindless intrusion. There were terrible travesties commited on the Palestinians by Israel. We blindly supported these misdeeds and disregarded basically what the rest of the world thought of Israel's policies.
This book by Shenon exemplifies what we as Americans have so readily sucumbed to. We constantly fall prey to the spins by the media. Who controls the media?
When those like Judge Napolitano step up and speak the truth they loose their TV programming. Napolitano lost his show "Freedom Watch."
Again, good job Shenon. What we don't know as a voter is what keeps the crimes by our govt officials hidden from us and what keeps us further away from being a true democracy where the voter is intelligent and informed.
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This book is amazing.  You probably, like I, figured there was some corruption going on in Washington.  But I had no idea of the extent that it really does.  It would seem these people have made an art form out of stealing from everyone and using the money for their own aggrandizement.  Peter Schweizer names names.  And YOUR congress critter is probably in this book.  Reading this book is like taking the "Red" pill in the movie The Matrix.  You will really understand just how horrible these people are and how they buy and sell their votes for their own advantage, while 'selling' YOUR AMERICAN DREAM and your children's future down the river.
I mean, this is what Thomas Jefferson meant when he said, "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
God Save us all
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This outstanding book is the best study of the current state of the USA. Kevin Phillips, the vastly experienced American political and economic commentator, depicts the USA's economic and religious interest-groups and their effects on the Republican coalition. For this paperback edition, he has written a brilliant 40-page introduction updating his 2006 analysis.

He shows how deindustrialisation is destroying the US economy. The debt-driven finance, insurance and real estate sector accounts for 21% of US GDP, manufacturing for only 13%. 44% of all US corporate profits come from the finance sector, 10% from manufacturing. Household incomes have not risen since 2000. Wages are 62% of national income, compared to an average 73% in the late 1960s.

He describes what he calls the `oil-national security complex' and its `100 years' oil war'. The USA, with 200 million of the world's 520 million automobiles, defeats conservation and energy efficiency. The USA consumes a quarter of the world's energy, but has only 5% of its reserves. Since 1998, the USA has been importing more than half the petrol it uses. A barrel of oil cost $3 in 1970, $10 in 1986, $30 in 2002, $75 in 2007. Non-OPEC oil will peak in 2010.

So the US state wants to secure oil supplies from the Middle East, but in a classic case of imperial overreach, its efforts are counter-productive. White House economic advisor Lawrence Lindsay said in September 2002, "the key issue is oil, and a regime change in Iraq would facilitate an increase in world oil so as to drive down prices." Pre-war, Iraq produced 3.5 million barrels a day, now just 1.1 million, "U.S. mismanagement in Iraq having only aggravated the oil-supply and terrorist threats", as Phillips writes. The war has caused most of the recent $45-a-barrel rise.

Phillips also studies the USA's rightwing religious fundamentalism - a toxic brew of Biblical inerrancy and born-again evangelicalism. It claims that we live in the `end-times', when the defeat of the antichrist at Armageddon heralds the second coming. It is anti-women, anti-science, anti-modernism and anti-Enlightenment. It opposes sex education, women's rights, contraception, stem-cell research and abortion.

He shows how successive US governments have indulged the soaring debt and credit industry. They encouraged reckless credit expansion, blowing up the ballooning national, international, business, financial and household debts. Low-interest rates led to the credit-card boom, to exotic mortgages, derivatives (which the speculator Warren Buffett called `financial weapons of mass destruction'), hedge-funds and debt instruments. Buffett also said, "Hyperactive equity markets subvert rational capital allocation."

Americans now owe more than they make. Finance firms are debt collectors; credit card companies offer to consolidate people's debts, but once the debtor is hooked, the company can raise interest rates to 20-30%. No wonder that in Bush's first term (2000-04), there were five million personal bankruptcies and by 2006, the USA's total debt was $40 trillion, 304% of GDP.
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Excellent book for exposing what may be America's biggest problem and main contributor to our disastrous economical woes.  This book so enlightens the reader with the extensive corruption of our unions and strongly motivates me to promote this book to readers. American citizens need to get informed and step up to the plate demanding that our Congressional representatives clean the corruption up in our unions and proactively work toward eliminating union power in controlling our politicians and economy. What I cannot understand is why we haven't heard anything from Hannady or O'Reilly on this.