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Sarah Nicholson, The Courier Mail

Dec 18, 2006

Iraq has been in the news a lot more than usual after the release of the Iraqi Study Group's report a couple of weeks back.

While you may have heard about the document, you may be feeling a little in the dark about what the report was and just what the situation really is in Iraq.

The internet, as usual, has come to the rescue with some sites that may cast a little light on the subject.

You can download a copy of the report from the website of the United States Institute of Peace (www.usip.org) which is the organisation funded by the American Congress responsible for facilitating the Iraq Study Group.

The site also has a collection of fact sheets on the Iraq situation, scenarios for change and what it calls ''transition from bullets to ballots''.

Electronic Iraq is another informative site (electronicIraq.net) and an article on the page has declared that the study group's report was ''the policy equivalent of a stillbirth'' but the eIraq Blog ''seems to be getting to the heart of the matter'' if you take the word of one American journalist.


There are heaps of Iraq-related articles on the Iraqi Daily page (www.iraqdaily.com) and a couple of weeks ago, between stories on Saddam's trial and the Baker report, was a story on Britney Spears' divorce.

Another politically orientated site, which describes itself as providing an ''offbeat look at the hot-button issues of the day'', is the Satirical Political Report at (satiricalpolitical.com).

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoon Index (www.cagle.com) lets you pick an issue, which may be something other than the war in Iraq, and then get a ''full face of political cartoons on the subject from top cartoonists'' all over the US. Cagle also has a blog and in one entry he described and illustrated the process he goes through when creating a cartoon.