Most Think Propaganda Campaign in Iraq Wrong

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11 Jan. Reuters - Pentagon to Set New Communications Policy.

The Pentagon, stung by criticism over secret U.S. military payments to Iraqi newspapers to print pro-American articles, is moving to develop a "strategic communications" plan, a senior defense official said on Wednesday.

The White House and some members of Congress have expressed concern over the payments, but the military says it is important to spread the truth in Iraq to counter what it calls lying by insurgents to the Iraqi people

The defense official said that developing clear guidance for communicating with the public at home and abroad is a key issue that will be taken up this year as a result of top-level debate in the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, or QDR...

[zenpundit]

The Pentagon, stung by criticism over secret U.S. military payments to Iraqi newspapers to print pro-American articles, is moving to develop a "strategic communications" plan,

"...after which, Pentagon personnel will be dispatched to close the doors of empty barns and affix carts to the front of horses"

This might have been more helpful around, say, January 2002. better late than never.