[tictoc]

Just to be clear about this:

al-Guardian got burnt by Tagesspiegel and Die Welt, which in turn had gotten burnt by dpa. (dpa is a German equivalent of Reuters or the Associated Press.)

Since neither Tagesspiegel nor Die Welt are lefty newspapers, the Guardian might even be called a victim in this mess.

[Stultis]

Again, the lead sentence begins: "Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk [Wolfowitz] has claimed."

That characterization (oil being the "main" reason) was not supported even by the misquote. Was there something else in the dpa feed that supported it? If not, then The Guardian may have gotten "burnt" as to the quote, but they still spun a blatantly (and very probably willfully) false story to go along with it.