THE US IS SPAMMING IRAQ, we learn here.

Thousands of e-mail messages have been sent out since Thursday, a military source told CNN.

The official says "this is just the beginning of a psychological warfare campaign" to convince the Iraqi leadership they cannot win a war against the United States and its allies.

The message includes instructions to the e-mail recipients to contact the United Nations in Iraq if they want to defect.

Senior military sources told CNN this was the first time the military had engaged in this type of "information warfare campaign."

Read The Rest Scale: 3 out of 5. (Via Noah Shachtman's Defense Tech.)