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by dtech 165 days ago
Many European nations contributed, it wasn't just the UK. The french were basically the only NATO members who didn't contribute
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> Many European nations contributed, it wasn't just the UK. The french were basically the only NATO members who didn't contribute

Can you outline how Canada contributed? Because I distinctly remember our PM at the time, Chretien, saying 'no thanks'.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War

How about Germany?

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/06/iraq.johnhoope...

That is not true either. France, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Canada, Greece and Luxembourg all refused to help. NATO was basically split in half on the issue.
And that was when the "French always surrender" meme started to pop up on the Internet. US propaganda at the time