Actually, the ties between France and Iraq go far enough back that unless one particular oil company puts pressure on France, there is no way they'll ever do it. For the picture of Chirac and Saddam here is a clip about what France gave Saddam years ago.
Essentially, Israel feared a second holocaust at the hands of Saddam, and took out what they were working on. One of the men involved in that attack died when that space shuttle destroyed.
http://www.alisrael.com/tamuz/
As far as accuracy goes, the information provided is accurate. The skew is obviously pro-Israeli and pro-war.
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