The National Security Archive has released a pre-war memo showing the Pentagon planned to control the Iraqi media three months before the U.S. invasion. In a three-page document, the Pentagon calls for a “Rapid Reaction Media Team,” saying: “Having professional U.S.-trained Iraqi media teams immediately in place to portray a new Iraq (by Iraqis for Iraqis) with hopes for a prosperous, democratic future, will have a profound psychological and political impact on the Iraqi people. … A re-constituted free Iraqi domestic media can serve as a model in the Middle East where so much Arab hate-media are themselves equivalent to weapons of mass destruction.”