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A 3 page book review on George Packer’s text Assassin’s Gate. George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, describes himself as a “liberal hawk,” who initially supported the current invasion of Iraq. His take on the war, as voiced in his book Assassin’s Gate, offers his reader a biographical look at the war that focuses on Packer’s eyewitness account as a war correspondent, as the “bulk” of Packer’s text consists of his account of “what he saw in Iraq between July 2003 and January 2005.” As this suggests, because Packer is good journalist, this fact alone makes his account of the US war with Iraq significant. Packer uses his considerable journalistic skills to give his reader a sense of what the war looks like from an Iraqi perceptive. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the war, as voiced in his book Assassins Gate, offers his reader a biographical look at the war that focuses on Packers eyewitness account as a war correspondent, as
the "bulk" of Packers text consists of his account of "what he saw in Iraq between July 2003 and January 2005."ii As this suggests, because Packer is good journalist, this
fact alone makes his account of the US war with Iraq significant. Packer uses his considerable journalistic skills to give his reader a sense of what the war looks like
from an Iraqi perceptive. Packer begins his discussion of the current US invasion of Iraq by placing it within the historical context of the first Gulf War. He writes
that "...between the end of the first Gulf War and the morning of September 11, 2001, Iraq remained an irritant and reminded of unfinished business."iii In this opening section, Packer
specifically addresses Kanan Makiyas 1989 Republic of Fear, which details the horrors of Saddam Husseins reign of terror in Iraq, which Packer confirms as entirely accurate.iv As this suggests, Packer
shows how the ideological rationalization behind the war developed and shows that this line of reasoning was highly moral and idealistic. He writes that ""The Iraq War...started as a
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk of his book describes his experiences in Iraq, where he
visited a "psychiatric hospital, a college campus, (and) the U.S. command headquarter inside the Green Zone" and how he interviewed "clerics, politicians, American functionaries, adolescent girls, a doctor forced by
Baathists to cut the ears off prisoners (and) an Iraqi soldier how knew Hussein and thought he was a nice guy."vi While it is true that Packer did not
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