Why ‘old Europe’ stood by Saddam
Your columnist’s assumption that revenge is the motivation for excluding France, Germany, and Russia from the table of reconstruction in Iraq is way off base.
America, and some of the 62 nations that chose to support us, have shed blood in the freeing of Iraq. France, Germany and Russia chose to oppose us every step of the way. Why? Because of the billions of dollars worth of weapons sold to Iraq on credit against the sanctions of the UN.
