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Originally Posted by Fidei Defensor
Well, France could have "helped" get a final UN Security Council resolution through that would have cut off arguments about legality. Also, such "help" may have resulted in Iraqi compliance, rather than war, but I tend to doubt that.
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But France knew that the inspections were turning up nothing. France knew the intelligence promoted by america was fraudulent.
Had France done the things you say, they would have been dishonest and fraudulent themselves. There were good reasons for SC not to sanction violence.
And besides, Saddam was compliant, at least to the point of not being a security threat. The inspections were verifying that. This was known prior to hostilities.
Andrew