Bush cabal still planting stories in Iraq papers; it still isn't working

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Rumsfeld: Planting Stories Under Review

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
2 hours, 32 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped.

Rumsfeld told reporters he was mistaken in the earlier assertion.

"I don't have knowledge as to whether it's been stopped. I do have knowledge it was put under review. I was correctly informed. And I just misstated the facts," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing.

Rumsfeld had said in a speech in New York last Friday and in a television interview the same day that the controversial practice had been stopped.

He said that Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, was reviewing the practice. Previously, Casey has said he saw no reason to stop it.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060221/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld

Iraq angrily rejects US sectarian warning

By Michael Georgy
Tue Feb 21, 9:09 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily dismissed on Tuesday U.S. warnings to shun sectarianism in the country's new government, saying Iraqis would not accept interference in their affairs.

Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who echoed the U.S. call for a government of national unity in Iraq, the normally calm and diplomatic Jaafari said Iraq knew its own best interests.

"When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is 'no we do not want a sectarian government' -- not because the U.S. ambassador says so or issues a warning," he told a news conference.

"...We do not need anybody to remind us, thank you."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060221/wl_nm/iraq_dc_9

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1. They issue stories on the hour here in the States and that isn't working

After a while the lies catch up.