Summary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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Summary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007

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Summary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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Packer, George

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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Hersh, Seymour M.

Summary: "Seymour M. Hersh brings together reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?" "In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 HER

Raban, Jonathan.

Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005

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Shadid, Anthony.

Summary: From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, an account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. The Washington Post's Shadid went to Iraq, neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid--an Arab American born and raised in Oklahoma--was able to disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005

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Summary: "Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing military agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2004

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Summary: Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Frontline goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history. In "The Dark...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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Moyers, Bill D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2004

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Chomsky, Noam.

Summary: The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7 CHO

Diamond, Larry Jay.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2005

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Ricks, Thomas E.

Summary: "The Gamble," the story of Gen. David Petraeus and the American military, reveals that many high-level officials were opposed to the 2003 invasion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009

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Summary: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage of American POW's, the station has revealed (and continues to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004

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Lindauer, Susan.

Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.The War on Truth -- 2.Advance Warnings About 9/11 -- 3.Peace Asset -- 4.A Secret Day in the Life of an Asset -- 5.Iraq's Peace Overtures to Europe and the United States -- 6.9/11: A Pattern of Command Negligence with Michael Collins -- 7.September 11, 2001 -- 8.Iraq's Cooperation with 9/11 Investigation -- 9.Iraq's Contribution to 9/11 Investigation Part 2 --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 LIN

Woodward, Bob.

Summary: Bob Woodward offers an analysis of the Bush Administration. He discloses secret plans, conversations, and meetings held with political leaders that directly influenced the war in Iraq.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2008

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Woodward, Bob.

Summary: A secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006 forecasted a more violent 2007 in Iraq, contradicting the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush. This book examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Woodward answers the core...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006

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Summary: In the world's most dangerous war zone, 400 American soldiers carry out their mission from a bombed-out pleasure palace once owned by Saddam Hussein. Welcome to a place called "Gunner Palace" and experience what life is like for the soldiers who live there. For these war hardened soldiers "minor combat" involves everything from executing raids on suspected terrorists, enduring roadside bombs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005

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Woodward, Bob

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006

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Henderson, Kristin.

Contents: Welcome to the sisterhood -- The waiting -- Uncle Sam wants you -- Preparing for goodbye -- Green ramp -- The knock at the door -- Connections -- Live from Fallujah -- Different planets -- Honorary sisters -- Dreamland -- Pigeons in the desert -- Hitting the wall -- Peace also takes courage -- Back to green ramp -- The war at home -- The real news -- The terrible relief.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006

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Zucchino, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004

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Power, Samantha.

Summary: Reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello's powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in the context of his troubleshooting attempts in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion; in his taming of the Khmer Rouge and his repatriation of four-hundred-thousand Cambodian refugees in the early nineties; in his efforts to negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; in his struggle to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELLO, SERGIO VIERIA DE POW

Summary: Documentary about the war in Iraq, with footage shot by U.S. National Guardsmen who agreed to film their year in Iraq. re.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2007

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Blix, Hans.

Summary: "The author supervised the international inspections for WMDs in Iraq until March 2003."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004

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