Orwell thought that the Spanish Civil War was a just war, but he also came to understand that it was a dirty war, where a decent cause was hijacked by goons and thugs, and where betrayal and squalor negated the courage and sacrifice of those who fought on principle.

Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, November 2007

For the foreigners who came to fight in the Spanish War just based on their principles, please read this article in Vanity Fair and then tell me whether, even in the case that the Irak war was declared to take hold of the oil, the war was worth to have been fought. Prospect, the left-leaning British magazine has made their decision.

In March 2003, when the first images of the invasion of Irak were cast on the Spanish TV news, I had a conversation about the fairness of the war. I said that any war would cause death, but would bring a better future for the Irakis. Even if some of the reasons for the war were merely based on pursuit of wealth, that was the only way to bring a government to spend money, suffer opposition and decide fight for the freedom of other countries and that would release good.