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Might I add that the countries that had most to gain from not going to war, but from lifting of the UN sanctions instead were, in no particular order: France, Germany, Russia and China. (mostly thanks to lucrative oil deals)
(sorry, had to be said)
But one might argue that Iraq was simply very good at playing political-economical games to drive her enemies against another. The constant in-fighting at the UN kept him in power for a loooooong time.
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