Kermit: You wrote "This is about illegally selling arms to a nation under UN Sanctions. I also think that it's wrong for China and Russia to sell arms but they're not traditional allies in the sense that the French are nor do they really care about UN Sanctions like I thought France as a nation would." I would laugh if it wasn't so tragic to think like this. I won't make ad hominem attack as you said so you can read the following without passion, but with an open mind:

Did the USA care about UN before invading Irak, when the coalition had the quite entire world against? De Villepin, our foreign affairs french minister has been applauded ( yes, applauded! )in the UN assembly after his speech asking for more time to UN inspections, and it never happens in that assembly, when a country speaks, to be applauded, It's just to underline the world agreement on that subject.

And what your president said before invading Irak ? That it was no need to inspection anymore because it was obvious ( sic! ) that Irak was lying, and if not, it was to Irak to make the proof of its innocence!!! Where are Irak's rights here?
For Bush, that comedy has always been a game, and he said it before attacking:" the game is over!"

The worst in all that, except the thousands of death on each parts, it's that if there was a little of respect of the UN by the small nations and if it was existing between the nations a little idea of international rights, there's no reason to believe in it anymore: USA has destroyed it and showed that the only law it exists really between the nations, is the law of the strongest, it's USA law ( isn't it called imperialism??? ).
So please, don't say anymore "the UN sanctions about Irak", but "USA's sanction..." Thank you...
Montjoly.