Reading between the lines

This:

Panel investigators also echoed the findings by Duelfer, head of the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, that Saddam's regime gave lucrative contracts to buy Iraqi oil to high-ranking officials in Russia, France and other nations.

Could certainly shed some light on this:

French President Jacques Chirac has said in a newspaper interview that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq.

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"Well, Britain gave its support but I did not see much in return," Chirac was quoted as saying in Tuesday's Times. "I am not sure that it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically."

Sounds like the French are really missing those bribes and kickbacks from Saddam.