Pretend like you're buying food from UAE, but they ship you weapons and cash instead...etc.
As for the old, tired water arguement, they could have had these components in spite of the sanctions, if they were willing to allow in UN overseers
to be sure that the parts were used as intended. Iraq declined such overseers. Again, it falls on Saddam's head....anyway you slice it....
any way you slice it... except the way that holds the person who destroyed the facility responsible for the problem.
Particularly when they were breaking the geneva conventions by attacking that facility. Oops, I forgot, the US doesn't have to obey international
laws...