Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
3) Russia and China did not veto the UN sanction, for whatever reason.
The reason was obvious, you've named it yourself:
Sympathy for the USA after 11 Sept.
But after Iraq invasion without UN resolution and even without a sanction of NATO council, lies about WMD in Iraq and some other issues (deploying of 3rd position area of US missile defence in particular) attitude has changed.