The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
 

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

by George Packer

As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate. Packer describes himself as an ambivalent pro-war liberal "who supported a war [in Iraq] by about the same margin that the voting public had supported Al Gore." He never... (read more)

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Stasha W
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If you want to understand Iraq, why the U.S. is there and how extremely difficult it is going to be to get out, read this book. George Packer does a fabulous job bringing in the persepective of all levels of government as well as the Iraqi people. It took me a while to get through it, because I would get so angry at how the Bush administration handled everything or didn't that I would have to put it down and walk away. Yet, when I finished it I felt much more educated about the situation.

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