Pentagon rolls out stealth PR

"A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says."

"Run by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations Command, the media campaign is being designed to counter terrorist ideology and sway foreign audiences to support American policies. The military wants to fight the information war against al-Qaeda through newspapers, websites, radio, television and "novelty items" such as T-shirts and bumper stickers."

Here we go again. Corrupting the U.S. media by paying them to promote pro-government propaganda. Corrupting the Iraqi press by buying pro-U.S. propaganda. Now they're going to corrupt the media world-wide, all in the name of fighting "the terrorists".

I guess leading by example is too much to ask. We're supposed to be promoting the cause of democracy, it's benefits and institutions, but all we seem to be doing is deceiving, corrupting, kidnapping, torturing, the list goes on.

You would think, if our cause is so just, our ideals so great, our actions so legitimate, we would'nt have to resort to corrupting the media to show us in a good light.

What we're doing, is putting the world on notice that nothing favorable they read about us, can ever be trusted to be the truth.