They help brainwash the masses and try to create mental desperation. It's only a matter of time before weaker minds snap under such a payload.

One reads enough of the media's bogus propaganda on the war and one's bound to rant and rave...or worse.

In Europe they regularly (as illustrated by AFP) make-up news about Iraq designed to depict the war as unjust and soldiers as monsters.

One can hear folks parrot the medias programming here.

The average Euro just do not understand their media are owned by corporations that have lost money since the US arrived in Iraq and that 90% of the news they receive is massively distorted or outright fabricated. In that sense their ignorance mirrors the American who is unaware of the corporate interests behind AP, Reuters, Gannett, WP, NYT, etcetera.

Follow the money.