[SpottedBeaver]

...and I will bet that they find the Germans are involved in other ways!

I'm quite sure that the reason the French and the Germans are trying to block our military action, is because, they are very complicit in Iraq's WMD programs.

[Amelia]

I'm quite sure that the reason the French and the Germans are trying to block our military action, is because, they are very complicit in Iraq's WMD programs.

Bingo!

[Michael81Dus]

You have only little insights from Germany. I´m sure that the Federal Government has not supported Iraq, although today it opposes evervy military actions.

You have to know, that many Germans are pacifistic and distrust military in general. The government today consists of some pacifists and Schröder took his chance to get votes with his anti-war-campaign. So, there are two reasons why the German government is opposed to a war:
1. some pacifists are Ministers today
2. Schröder himself tries to get votes in state elections on Feb 2nd and won´t break another promise he made before national elections last September (not to engage in a war).

Yes, German firms helped Saddam (so US firms did too), but that was before Desert Storm. All deliveries of weapons or technology after 1991 are forbidden and will be persecuted by German authorities, if German firms did so.

BTW the story about the French treason isn´t new.