Bad news about Iraq is being blocked in a variety of ways, including this:
"The US Agency for International Development said this week it would restrict distribution of reports by a contractor, Kroll Security International, showing that the number of daily attacks by insurgents in Iraq had increased.The same story says Bush's election team helped Iraqi puppet leader Iyad Allawi draft his speech to US Congress last week, and Donald Rumsfeld has sent commanders of US military facilities in Iraq a five-page memorandum exhorting them to spread the good news among Iraqis so they don't grow despondent.
On Monday, a day after The Washington Post published a front-page story saying 'the Kroll reports suggest a broad and intensifying campaign of insurgent violence', an official of the agency sent an email to congressional aides saying: 'This is the last Kroll report to come in. After the [Washington Post] story, they shut it down in order to regroup.'"
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