Shaping the Bush administration's message on the Iraq war has taken on new fervor, just as anticipation is building for the September progress report from top military advisers.

For the Pentagon, getting out Iraq information will now include a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week Iraq Communications Desk that will pump out data from Baghdad _ serving as what could be considered a campaign war room.

WHOA WHOA WHOA! Getting out the news is nice and all, but this strikes me as putting politics over security. Someone at the Pentagon should be looking at this and saying "Hold it."