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submitted 11 months ago by WashedOver@lemmy.ca to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

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[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I wasn't a fan of a lot of the things Chretien did, but this was definitely the right call.