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Russia produces oil. If oil in Iraq becomes much cheaper and easier to obtain, Russia's oil market share drops considerably. Of course Russia also sold weapons and educated Iraqi's how to use them. Hence Russia's reason to be against the war.
France buys a shit load of oil from Iraq, more than likely has many business/economical ties with the Iraqi government. They are also a fairly powerful country and undoubtedly dread seeing the US becoming more powerful than it currently is. Hence France's reasons :-)
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