Beffudled (sic)-The government allows the media to report negatively because doing otherwise would violate the First Amendment in a manner that would be utterly unacceptable to the majority of the nation. Remember, the media in fact controls most broadcast and paper information distributers. That's why we call them the media. It would be almost impossible to censor them all without tremendous backlash. Instead, the government has set up a system, the "embedded" reporters, which nearly guarantees favorable reporting without the appearance of censorship. Further, I think the free flow of information is more important than the morale of soldiers who should know full well that the war is not fully supported or moral. As to why we should bail out the Iraqi people, consider that because of our earlier support of Saddam, and our bombing of Iraqi infrastructure over the last twelve years, we are responsible for much of their poverty.