The enemies of freedom  

Paul Bremer has gone and shut down a Shiite newspaper in Iraq:

The letter ordering the paper closed, signed by L. Paul Bremer III, the top administrator in Iraq, cited what the American authorities called several examples of false reports in Al Hawza, including a February dispatch that said the cause of an explosion that killed more than 50 Iraqi police recruits was not a car bomb, as occupation officials had said, but an American missile.

This seems like a pretty bad idea, even from the standpoint of promoting stability. Even if these rumors were malicious anti-American propaganda, won't shutting the operation down just fuel more rumors about American intentions? I'm sympathetic to the need to stabilize the country and achieve some consensus for democracy before the intermim government comes in, but compromising on speech makes us look a lot more like occupiers than liberators...