When a plan never existed, let alone comes together

Not content with paying for propoganda, the Bush Administration, has decided to undermine any possible positive Sunni cleric by using bribery on some.

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.

Since then, the company has retained three or four Sunni religious scholars to offer advice and write reports for military commanders on the content of propaganda campaigns, the former employee said. But documents and Lincoln executives say the company's ties to religious leaders and dozens of other prominent Iraqis is aimed also at enabling it to exercise influence in Iraqi communities on behalf of clients, including the military.

There could not be a surer way of having things regress than by having clerics that are potentially favorable to you look like your tools.

Juan Cole, who is a hell of a lot more knowledgeable than me, agrees.