Notably, Canada declined to join the invasion of Iraq, and faced a lot of criticism from the U.S. for doing so. PM Jean Cretien of the Liberal party was in charge at the time.
Mexico, France, and Germany along with others didn’t join the war either. The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history of freedom together and the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France.
Still don’t think Freedom Fries stuck, as it’s not freedom to just go and kill people because it filled a political need.
The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history
This shows that a century of friendship can be tossed aside if a politician can whip some uneducated oafs into a frenzy. It was an interesting early demo of weaponizing the stupid as a mob.
Yeah, unofficial word on the Canada ‘briefing’ was that the US ‘PowerPoint’ to going to war in Iraqi was a lazy and stupid presentation that didn’t impress anyone.
Notably, Canada declined to join the invasion of Iraq, and faced a lot of criticism from the U.S. for doing so. PM Jean Cretien of the Liberal party was in charge at the time.
Mexico, France, and Germany along with others didn’t join the war either. The outage and BS about France that came out after was sad considering their long history of freedom together and the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France.
Still don’t think Freedom Fries stuck, as it’s not freedom to just go and kill people because it filled a political need.
This shows that a century of friendship can be tossed aside if a politician can whip some uneducated oafs into a frenzy. It was an interesting early demo of weaponizing the stupid as a mob.
Yeah, unofficial word on the Canada ‘briefing’ was that the US ‘PowerPoint’ to going to war in Iraqi was a lazy and stupid presentation that didn’t impress anyone.
I wasn’t a fan of a lot of the things Chretien did, but this was definitely the right call.