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ELI5: Why did Sadam refuse UN weapons inspectors if he didn't have WMD's anyway?
gpt
1.  France and Russia were whispering into Saddam's ear that the US wouldn't take any meaningful military action, despite the threats, and that France and Russia would each veto any UN Security Council resolutions that authorized military force against Iraq.  

2.  He wanted Iran -- his and Iraq's mortal enemy and against which Iraq had just ended an 8-year-long brutal, bloody, and destructive war -- to think he had nuclear weapons, even though he did not have nuclear weapons.