Undercutting the Sunni moderates

After this, the credibility of every moderate Sunni leader will be called into question. To speak even one word against the violence will carry the presupposition of working for the Americans and put their lives and the lives of their families at serious risk.

The Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations company, was told early in 2005 by the Pentagon to identify religious leaders who could help produce messages that would persuade Sunnis in violence-ridden Anbar Province to participate in national elections and reject the insurgency, according to a former employee.

Everything the Bush administration tries to do in Iraq, seems to make things worse.