Pacification!?

Patrick Cockburn has been writing from Iraq for a few weeks now. The problem with allowing a "free" press during war and occupation become apparent while reading PC. It still amazes me though how in the US the respectable debate is more about 150,000 troops, the hawks vs. 180,000 troops, the doves or multilateral occupation vs. unilateral occupation or we should torture "terrorists" vs. silence.