As Iraqis embrace democracy, the U.S. is about to crush all remaining vestiges of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
( —ths blogline is paid for and is brought to you by the LincolnGroup, a PR firm hired by the Pentagon to plant favorable stories in the press.)

I find it revolting that the U.S government through the agency of the Pentagon would hire a PR firm to pay Iraqi reporters to plant American-written propaganda in their media as if the stories were native portrayals of the current state of affairs.  Story here.

We’re trying to convince Iraqis that democracy is good, right?

And then we go and ‘buy’ their integrity and by doing so undermine the independence of their press.

Is that the way democracy works in America? Or is it better not to answer that question?

The Press in America is Free! And Democracy assures us it will ever be so.
( —ths blogline is paid for and is brought to you by the LincolnGroup, a PR firm hired by the Pentagon to plant favorable stories in the press.)