Tank Fixer wrote :

Actually it's rather admirable how they have remained firm to the
convictions Sadam paid them to have.

"No more persuasive is the widely voiced (in the U.S.) argument that
the French were defending wide-reaching and profitable commercial
relationships with Saddam's regime. The truth is that France enjoyed
minor economic ties with Saddam. Under the United Nations'
now-defunct Oil for Food program with Saddam's Iraq, the French were
only the 13th-largest participant. The U.S. under that program
bought more than 50 percent of Iraq's total oil exports, the French
8 percent."

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"The French Were Right" (The National Journal)
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njw...03/1107nj1.htm