No news is good news?

This is really horseshit.

The Bush administration, battling negative perceptions of the Iraq war, is sending Iraqi Americans to deliver what the Pentagon calls "good news"about Iraq to U.S. military bases and has curtailed distribution of reports showing increasing violence in that country. The unusual public relations effort by the Pentagon and the U.S. Agency for International Development comes as details have emerged showing the U.S. government and a representative of President Bush's re-election campaign had been heavily involved in drafting the speech given to Congress last week by interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Combined, they indicate that the federal government is working assiduously to improve Americans' opinions about the Iraq conflict - a key element of Bush's re-election message.

Funny. If this happened here, there'd be lawsuits, don't you think? Say someone gets killed because the report that would have told them not to go to such-and-such area was suppressed. But in Iraq, it's perfectly OK. The most important thing is to make everyone feel better about this horrible war so Bush can get reelected, so he can do... what, exactly? Edited to add: Whoah, how the heck did I miss the part about the Bush campaign writing Allawi's speech?!?!? Talking Points Memo noticed it, I didn't!