Martini Republic » Ordinary People: "Almost daily, I get reminded that the premise of the war was based on lies, however. And not just lies about WMD. And not just involving the US and Great Britain. In Australia, folks are beginning to hone in on the oil story a little more precisely: the nation’s leading oil company negotiated secret deals to secure Iraqi oil deals, using the same folks involved in the oil-for-food scandal. In Germany, while the nation posed as being anti-war at the UN in 2003, German spies in Baghdad were supplying the Americans intelligence, and one was even in the office of General Tommy Franks. And the Iraqis are following our own example. Doug Bandow points out that the truth is now being discouraged even in Iraq, a purported fledgling democracy, where telling the truth would appear to be very important to securing the country."

(Via Martini Republic.)