You may catch short segments about Iraq on the news every night, but several new books could help deepen your understand about what's happening in Iraq.
The Iraq Study Group Report is the result of a 10 member bipartisan congressional group, co-chaired by James A Baker, III and Lee H. Hamilton. It assesses the situtaion in Iraq and makes many recommendations about what the United States should do next.
(Vairo Library E902.I73 2006)
Ian S. Lustick, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, questions the rationalization of America's response to 9/11 and rhetoric of terrorism in Trapped in the War on Terror.
(Vairo Library HV6432.L87 2006)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks, the Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, offers an comprehensive look at how the United States got to its current position in Iraq, "drawing on the exclusive cooperation of...more than one hundred senior officers and access to more than thirty thousand pages of official documents" (book jacket).
(Vairo Library DS79.76.R535 2006)