The Operation Iraqi Freedom FAQ site employs three methods to clarify the Iraq issue:

Expository posts. The eponymous OIF FAQ post synthesizes the primary source authorities — i.e., the set of controlling law, policy, precedent and determinative facts that define OIF's justification — into a coherent narrative form that is purpose-designed to lay a proper foundation and provide a study guide for the Iraq issue. The OIF FAQ answers, oriented to the main talking points of the usual anti-OIF narrative, also function as a dialectical cheat sheet. Other expository posts, particularly 10 year anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom: thoughts and A problem of definition in the Iraq controversy: Was the issue Saddam's regime or Iraq's demonstrable WMD?, examine key facets of the Iraq issue with additional scope and depth, and supplement the OIF FAQ post.

Model answers. The OIF FAQ site includes a selection of corrective Critical responses to leaders and pundits, such as President George Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Fundamental correction of the Iraq issue in the public discourse is required because endemic conjecture, distorted context, and misinformation by leaders and pundits, including putative OIF supporters, have warped the path-setting politics of Iraq. The critical responses to leaders and pundits balance the disadvantage of shorter subject coverage than the expository posts with the advantage of demonstrating dialectical application with actual examples.

Table of sources. The bedrock legal-factual sources of the Iraq intervention are straightforward, thorough, plain — incontrovertible. To learn the sources, first learn the OIF FAQ post as a study guide. Then learn the basic essential sources listed in the further reading section of the OIF FAQ post, which are equivalent to the required readings in a course syllabus. That should provide sufficient grounding to assimilate the comprehensive table of sources compiled at Perspective on Operation Iraqi Freedom.