The origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program: Technical reality and   Western hypocrisy
  This report is based on a series of papers written between 1980 and 2005 on the origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which was known to one of the authors in the late 1970s already, as well as to a number of other physicists, who independently tried without success to inform their governments and the public.   It is concluded that at no point did the Western governments effectively try to stop Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which suggests that its existence was useful as a foreign policy tool, as is confirmed by its use as a major justification to wage two wars on Iraq. 
Suren Erkman, Andre Gsponer, Jean-Pierre Hurni, and Stephan Klement