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

• D13Fd 6y ago
  And then we renamed French fries to freedom fries.
• spiderfarmer 6y 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."
• ashildr 6y ago
  Please add Germany to that list: [Excuse me I’m not convinced](https://youtu.be/_k_QbpFl7RM https://youtu.be/_k_QbpFl7RM) That sentence is idiomatic now for many people I know. (WTF is wrong with my markdown here?)
  • jhanschoo 6y ago
    Hacker news doesn't support markdown. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
• phtrivier 6y ago
  And yet I remember the weasel covers ;) ooooh, not-so-simpler times....