I believe the shoe is on the other foot.
Europe protecting oil interests as well as Saddam
"Russia, China, France have the highest stakes in the Iraqi oil industry," Shehata said. "Once Saddam is out, everything becomes null and void and there is no legal authority to enforce those claims."
"I think the French and the Russian ought to be told, not so much by theU.S., but by the Iraqi opposition to Saddam, that they are right on the edge of dealing themselves out of any hand in post-Saddam Iraq by the way they are trying to protect Saddam," says James Woolsey, a former CIA director