You are pitifully naive if you believe that among countries there is anything but fear or need. At present, those 3 believe that they have each other and that is all they need. I am confident that they will learn in the not too distant future that socialist nations simply can't be relied on.
By 9/11, there is no doubt that it was well known that france, germany, and russia were supporting saddam for oil, and equally clear, that they were not willing to hold him to the terms of his surrender. Someone was going to have to do it unless, of course, you really did prefer to have saddam in charge. Is that it? Did you really prefer to have him in charge?
Saddam had been flouting UN resolutions for about a decade and a half. I should hope that action had been long planned. Far earlier than 9/11 one would hope.
And of course I believe he had wmd's. And I believe that at some point, russia, france, and germany told him that we were coming to town with, or without them, and that he must get his wmd's out of the country. My money is on them helping saddam move his stockpiles to syria.
Saddam was a fanatic for keeping records. He even recorded the number of bullets used by execution squads and the locations of the bullet wounds on those killed by them. He kept meticulous records of everything. Oddly enough, he had no records on the destruction of wmd that we know for a fact that he had.
We know he had them, and we know that he was a fiend for keeping records, and we know he had no record of destroying them. Where do you suppose they are? Are you naive enough to take him at his word knowing that he was being helped by our alleged allies?
