Well, it looks as if at least one case of Iraq lying will cost the people who did it. From today's
Guardian:
A US newspaper has apologised and will pay damages to MP George Galloway over wrongful allegations that he was paid millions of pounds by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Christian Science Monitor accused Mr Galloway of accepting payments totalling $10m in return for promoting Saddam's interests in the west.
The Christian Science Monitor first apologised to Mr Galloway in June last year after it was revealed that the papers, dated between 1992 and 1993, were in fact only a few months old.
"At the time we published these documents, we felt they were newsworthy and appeared credible, although we did explicitly state in our article that we could not guarantee their authenticity," said Paul Van Slambrouck, the editor of the Monitor. "It is important to set the record straight: we are convinced the documents are bogus. We apologise to Mr Galloway and to our readers."
Full story here.