The paper attempts to present a critical stylistic analysis of ideology in selected extracts from Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds (2012), a novel that talks about an American soldier's experience in Iraq through the (2003) American invasion of Iraq. The aim is to examine critically its language and investigate the conceptual meaning of the terms in use. In such analysis, the ideology under investigation can be explored by analyzing nominal group (NG). A tool of naming and describing is one of the ten tools from Jeffries' approach (2010) is used. The meanings of the terms are not examined just as having denotative meanings, but they also have connotative meanings which are either positive or negative. The results expose the political, social, and psychological impact of such description on the Iraqi readers and how this description may change their minds about their society. Such approach explores the ideology behind the words.