Well most of the parties, opposed to the war, like the French, Germans and Russians, were in Iraq's pocket, If Iraq had readily available stockpiles, they would like likely have used them, and the casualties would be magnitudes higher then what we saw, the same tribesman who did little to fight the Baathists for nearly 40 years, were all to willing to murder the coalition forces, so I'm not terribly surprised about that.
If one was solely concerned with oil, the target would have been Saudi Arabia, WMD was the consensus argument, because most everyone from the SVR to Jordanian Mukharabat thought they had them.
Well most of the parties, opposed to the war, like the French, Germans and Russians, were in Iraq's pocket, If Iraq had readily available stockpiles, they would like likely have used them, and the casualties would be magnitudes higher then what we saw, the same tribesman who did little to fight the Baathists for nearly 40 years, were all to willing to murder the coalition forces, so I'm not terribly surprised about that.
If one was solely concerned with oil, the target would have been Saudi Arabia, WMD was the consensus argument, because most everyone from the SVR to Jordanian Mukharabat thought they had them.