It's not charity. They want "money" for the reconstruction. And they want the UN sanctions regime bureaucracy to continue to control Iraqi oil because it directed much of the purchases from oil profits to French firms.
Iraq is not Afghanistan. they have businessmen, bureaucrats, infrastructure. They don't need the UN.
They also want to clean up. After all there's a lot of white washing to do (all those documents linking France to WMDs in Iraq). This country makes me want to puke. I would like to tell them not only are you not invited to deal with post-war Iraq, you are no longer in our economic or political plans. Furthermore, we do not consider you an ally.