All these countries sit with the UN which has its own Nuclear Watchdogs. I'd guess there is a little "Payola" going on at the UN.
More than a little :) But this opens a really big can of worms. Did France, Germany and Russia have a better idea of the state of affairs on the ground in Iraq? If so, why didn't they say something especially since, according to them anyway, they wanted to avoid war? Did the UN have a reason to let the world think Saddamn was farther along than he was? Was the inspection regime making the UN money? Was the UN raking in too much dough from Oil For Food, and that might have been threatened by the lifting of sanctions should the world learn Saddamn was only violating sanctions
a little?
This is a mess, and I don't think an intell panel isn't going to do much. We need more spies, not more commissions.