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France, the one country that challenged US intelligence because their own intelligence contradicted the CIA and NSA reports. Absolute studs.

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spiderfarmer|5 years ago

In the Netherlands no-one of any importance sincerely believed US intelligence, because nobody trusted Bush. But the thinking here was "Well, it's the US and they have us by the balls. The diplomatic thing is to say we understand their stance on Irak."

D13Fd|5 years ago

And then we renamed French fries to freedom fries.

ashildr|5 years ago

Please add Germany to that list:

[Excuse me I’m not convinced](https://youtu.be/_k_QbpFl7RM)

That sentence is idiomatic now for many people I know. (WTF is wrong with my markdown here?)

jhanschoo|5 years ago

Hacker news doesn't support markdown. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

phtrivier|5 years ago

And yet I remember the weasel covers ;) ooooh, not-so-simpler times....