[America and UK have always said they would bring the West to Iraq. Bribes and election fraud are rife in Iraq. Media control (by a few multi millionnaires) over the masses is the main focus of any Western democracy-ed]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The top U.S. military officer called Thursday for a formal Pentagon review of the policies that led to defense officials paying the Iraqi media to place favorable stories in their newspapers.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said people need to know whether they are reading an article by an independent reporter or by someone paid by the U.S. government.

“They need to know that, so they can make their own judgment about what they believe and don’t believe in the article,” said Pace in the interview aboard a military aircraft heading for Turkey. “The worst thing you can have is people feeling like somehow they’ve been snookered.”

But left unanswered was the broader question of whether the Pentagon should be actively paying journalists or media outlets to publish positive stories.

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