Michael Savage has been using the word "sedition" for some time to describe the activities of those engaging in hyperbole and outright lies in reference to our campaign in Iraq.

It is difficult to define that "line" beyond which lies treason.

Allow me to point out that the entire story planting operation was done in a manner to deliberatly mask the authorship of the planted stories. Let me repeat that because I'm beginning to find that Neocons and LLPs are slow in comprehending write and wrong. Writing the story wasn't wrong. Paying to have the story published was not wrong. Authoring the stories and paying a newspaper to say that the author was an independent Journalist. That's wrong. It deliberately misleads the public.

If you are going to trumpet that the stories told the "truth" and were "factual", then you are immediatly shot down by the fact that the Iraqi media lied about the source of the stories, and did so because they were paid to lie about it. The idea of having a free press in Iraq is that they should have credibility and be seen as independent. The Rumsfeld Pentagon has destroyed the credibility of both the Iraqi Press and the United States Military. Why in the world did we have to lie??? If we were going to pay them to print the story, couldn't we do the democraticaly open and honest thing and admit it?? Couldn't we do the Christian thing and tell the truth? Now understand when I'm talking about doing the Christian thing, I'm not talking about what the Konservative Kristian Koaltion would consider to be the Christian thing. Whatever supports the Republican party is what is Christian to them. I'm talking about not bearing false witness.

Of course this story planting is the very same gambit that the Bush administration has attempted in this country....producing "new stories" at government expense, and then distributing them to news outlets who pretend that the news converage came from an independent source.

Al Jazerra tows the Liberal Line? Hah! Al Jazeera is probably the only media in the Middle East that is not run by middle eastern governments. The average citizen of a middle eastern country sees Al Jazeera as more independent and more trustworthy when compared to the biased news reporting of the government controlled media. What you fail to understand is that what the U.S. has done is cast itself in a bad light by doing the same thing that the non-democratic leaders in the Middle East do.....pay for and plant news stories that make themselves look good and then lie about how those stories got there. If what you are doing is honest and above board, AS THEY SHOULD BE IN A DEMOCRACY, then you can be truthful from the outset of who wrote the stories. The fact that our government paid to have the authorship of the stories covered up shows that they are once again willing to lie to prevent a crucial fact from being knows by the reader of the story. If that is the kind of Democratic society that Neocons want to see, then you should not be calling out the Liberals for TREASON. Government created news is an attitude exemplified by the Communists (Pravada) and the Nazis (Der Stürmer). It is NOT a hallmark of democracy and hopefully never will be.

A senior official with the Pentagon said this: "Here we are trying to create the principles of democracy in Iraq. Every speech we give in that country is about democracy. And we're breaking all the first principles of democracy when we're doing it."

I guess he is probably one of those liberal pentagon officials bordering on treason.

KeithS, you always construe my point too far. I spoke of the DNC, not liberal pentagon officials.

DNC, before the facts are known, before the stories planted are researched for the their factualness, before they are contrasted with the truthfulness of the unpaid press in Iraq, are out to claim political points against Bush.

It's never about winning in Iraq; it's all about trying to create negative perception of Bush.

Is PsyOps not a legitimate military strategy?