[DollyCali]

Do you really think that france & Germany's support would have made a difference?

I think we did better with the UN being out of the picture.

Probably the best thing that happened was their "attitude"

[TigersEye]

Do you really think that france & Germany's support would have made a difference?

While it is possible to believe that Saddam would have been defiant no matter what try to imagine him holding on if France, Germany, Russia and China had firmly condemned him along with the U.S., Britain and others. But it goes further than the recent UN resolutions. Imagine Saddam continuing on his course if those countries had withheld economic and material support for the last 12 years.

[AFPhys]

I don't actually believe that if france&germany had wholeheartedly supported the US in this case that Saadumb would have managed to avoid war, however, I DO believe that their behavior utterly DESTROYED the ONLY possible chance of avoiding it.