Good News On Iraq? Not.

As part of the Bush Administration's new drive to generate some good news about Iraq, newspapers across the USA have been encouraged to print positive letters from US soldiers. Aside from the fact that all such letters must pass through military censors, there is another problem: editors are discovering that the letters are identical!

Soldiers contacted by The Olympian newspaper said they did not write the letters and in many cases did not even sign them. One proud father contacted his son to congratulate him on getting such a fine letter published in the local rag - "What letter?" the son replied.