PR Bagman

The Pentagon has found another way to deal with the Iraqi resistance. Don't shoot them. Pay them. In the good old American tradition of every man has his price, the Pentagon is paying Sunni religious scholars to influence their followers in Iraq.

The Lincoln Group, America's propaganda news outlet, is also one of our best bagman channels in the religious payoff program. Oh, don't forget their superb efforts to produce radio and TV ads and to “sponsor” favorable opinion articles in the Iraqi press.

Wasn't Iraq supposed to be the nation where we are “planting the seeds of democracy?” Just goes to show that the democracy's seeds are greenbacks. The slimy payoff game works in Washington – why not Baghdad?

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