This just in: Russia Had Sources in U.S. Command

By ROBERT BURNS - The Associated Press - WASHINGTON —

The Russian government had sources inside the American military command as the U.S. mounted the invasion of Iraq, and the Russians passed information to Saddam Hussein on troop movements and plans, according to Iraqi documents released as part of a Pentagon report.

The Russians relayed information to Saddam during the opening days of the 2003 war, including a crucial moment before the assault on Baghdad, according to the documents in the report Friday.

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We know that France and Russia were in the pocket of Saddam Hussein -- corrupted by their lust for Iraqi oil. The US was right not to subjugate its security interests to a corrupt and compromised UN Security Council. (Indeed, it appears that the whole UN was in Saddam's oily pocket.)

Meanwhile, the left continues to this day to claim that the US went to war over oil.

In fact it was unctious leftist countries that were propping up a brutal dictator because it suited their interests. In doing so they undermined the UN's attempts to make Saddam Hussein come clean on his weapons programs, gave Saddam Hussein the idea that he could outwit and outlast the Anglo-Saxon West, and made the US-led invasion virtually inevitable.

Once again, those on the left are in the wrong.