Hey I never called the US innocent in this ... but the bottom line is that the US went in.
If they vetoed say a German wish to enter Iraq on the quiet basis of not wanting to end their gravy train than you'd have a point.
Fact is they went it.
France, especially, seems to be the opposite, making one think that they could never have gotten a fair shake from the United Nations regardless of evidence or the number of resolutions laid down by the body. It wasn't going to happen.
And since you brought up American involvement? The man that seems to have had his mitts the deepest into the pie?
Marc Rich ... the guy pardoned by Clinton on his last days in office.
ABC: American Involvment