Part two of the L.A. Times investigative report on sanctions-busting arms transfer to Iraq is now online. This part focuses mainly on the Polish connection.
A complaint — at one point the story says:
In Poland, the arms merchants ended up focusing on a new member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and one of the relatively few European countries to support the Bush administration’s war plan. (emphasis added)
The LAT’s memory is faulty — in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the number of European governments that supported U.S. policy in Iraq was much larger than the conventional wisdom remembers.
This isn’t the main point of the story — but casual asides like this affect political short-term memories (posted by Daniel Drezner).
The Dish 