[Carry_Okie]

You forgot to mention that the main reason the French are standing in the way: Iraq is a principle customer of French arms sales, in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. J'ACCUSE aussi!

Pour la guerre n'est pas pour des lâches
et la justice est pour des theives.

[Leisler]

It is not so much the sales as the kickbacks to the politicians from those sales. Chirac and the rest are getting rich off selling out their own people. Typical. And the French will take it, laying down, as always.