News about our tax money at work in Iraq

Our military forces specialize in winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. For example, "US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops." (from The Independent [U.K.])
President Bush has started a propaganda campaign about how good things are going in Iraq--if it is going so well, why are we doing this?