[Medicalidiot]

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

[spiderfarmer]

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]

And then we renamed French fries to freedom fries.

[ashildr]

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]

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

[phtrivier]

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