We are Americans and we're here to spread FREEDOM!!!

First, Bush considers bombing Al-Jazeera--the one bastion of free speech in the Middle East--and now... fake news stories. Oh, boy! Aren't WE righteous, now?

U.S. military pays for 'news' stories in Iraqi papers

The military's effort to disseminate propaganda in the Iraqi media is taking place even as U.S. officials are vowing to promote democratic principles, political transparency and freedom of speech to a country emerging from decades of dictatorship and corruption. It comes as the State Department is training Iraqi reporters in basic journalism skills and Western media ethics.

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