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	• Grand Theft Pentagon :Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror Jeffrey St. Clair Common Courage Press, 2005 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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Grand Theft Pentagon

Full to the brim with tasty tidbits of pentagon waste and corruption. A great read.
It must have gone to press in a hurry as it has many typo's.
Each chapter appears to be simply a transposed magazine article.

Every American Should Read This Book!

If it bothers you that half of every discretionary tax dollar goes to the military in some form or another (DOE, NSA, off-budget "black programs", etc. etc.) or that we spend more on defense and security than the rest of the world combined, then read this book! It's a phrase that is often overused, but this is definitely "a book every American should read." As a southerner originally from a very hawkish, pro-military state who thought that high military spending was necessary for jobs and community growth as well as security, this made my blood boil. We are essentially accomplishing none of those things--as evidenced by the fact that the world's most expensive military can't defeat small third-world countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan devastated by 20+ years of war and/or sanctions. Ever wonder why? The authors make clear that the level of the combined pentagon/congressional/corporate corruption not only puts the mafia to shame, but is threatening our democracy and our national security in very profound and frightening ways. Read this and prepare to be outraged. Perhaps this will spur action ensuring that enlisted servicemen and women will no longer need welfare to make ends meet while billions are funneled to defense contractors? My only complaint is the horrendous job of proofreading and copy-editing this book received (none?). Otherwise, this deserves to be on the bestseller list.

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delightful

snappy prose, compelling evidence, one of the great muckrakers.

the people who imply that the book is written by a knee jerk pacifist have not been paying attention. The article on the Warthog, and others demonstrated not only the man's opposition to waste and corruption, but the fact that the man genuinely cares about having a functioning military for DEFENSE purposes.

The points he raise cannot be simply dismissed out of hand, why keep spending so much money on cold war era weapons when our old enemy no longer exists/

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Grand Theft Pentagon

This is a book all Americans should read but will not. America has stopped reading and all they do is watch managed television and get lies every day that deludes them into zombies. This book for me was another revelation that our government has seduced us again by squandering billions apon billions of dollars they do not have to wage wars worldwide. These facts will never be presented on televison so it will reach few readers and America will continue to plunder the world to feed the fat cats that rule us!

"Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism."-Josh Frank

From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts.

The co-founder of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature, Jeffrey St. Clair lives in Portland, Oregon.

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