The one you started, and spread fake bullshit about WMDs to get European countries on board?
That war?
Fuck off you pudgy little fake working-class beard eyeliner cunt.
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Vance saying Europe should've done more to stop his nation from going to war has a high levels of rapist blaming victim for their acts energy.
I was young back then so my memory of the details as i've experienced them are somewhat blurred, but there definitely was opposition. And that was met with statements along the lines of "if you're not with us you're against us/part of the problem".
For a while a disturbing number of places in America were calling French fries "freedom fries" because France didn't want to invade Afghanistan with us. From my recollection, most of Europe was against it and the UK was the biggest backer of the invasion. I was in high school at the time so I could be wrong.
Close. French fries were renamed because France refused to join the Iraq war, stating they looked at the intelligence and didn’t see evidence of WMDs. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that this was “Old Europe” talking and that the Eastern European countries were more willing to join the war.
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I remember the US and UK being the only ones that really wanted the war and others being opposed or undecided. Isn't that when the name 'french frys' became a political thing?
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europe did and you clowns renamed french fries to freedom fries like idiots....
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I remember the lead up. There was a lot of action against it. But the US was clamoring really fucking hard for the war since the neo-cons wanted to invade Iraq well before 9/11.
Fuck you, JD.
... the Iraq War that the US started? What the fuck is he talking about?
After victim-blaming comes bystander-blaming.
When they lost a 20 year long war in the wrong country they invaded. Bunch of clowns.
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"Look what you made me do!" - Every domestic abuser ever
I remember when Republicans renamed french fries to freedom fries because France opposed the Iraq War
Living in a french-speaking country it's hard to forget.
The reaction at the time was partly bemusement though. We don't call them "french" anyway, because they're from Belgium.
France opposed the Iraq war and said that the Americans were full of shit when they were claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Of course the Republicans snowflakes did not enjoy that.
JD should have done more to self abort while he was still a fetus.
I second this
The Russia tactics again, I see. Do terrible war crime, blame others for not stopping you.
What a bunch of clowns.
So when the US starts a war with Canada and Denmark to avoid free elections in 2 years, Europe should step in and JD will make sure the US backs down?
OK.
Well, he's about 20 years too late for such criticism, and if he had been around to say that, his party would have called him a terrorist sympathizer. He probably would be put on a "no-fly list. "
His brain is freedom fried.
Shady Vance is now being told to do revisionist history. I'm excited to hear what he's told to say next.
Easily the most underrated moment of the election was when the sofa-king Shady Vance said that the US has the "cleanest energy economy in the world." On stage! On television!
That's not even revisionist, it's just straight double think. Decades of holding the nation back in an outdated dirty energy economy, from Reagan ripping solar panels off the white house roof to Trump ripping EV chargers out of federal parking lots.
Decades of fighting any and all clean energy initiatives and they just... pretend it never happened. Gaslit the country into thinking that we already accomplished all of the progress that they personally prevented. The progress that we still desperately need to this day.
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Did he even say “thank you” to Europe for its support?
Why the fuck is VP Bowman ranting about the war his ol' bush started? Is he trying to fuck the memory of what happened, like the couch no one wants to use in the oval office?
In a perfect world, right after his comments there should have been a hail of gunfire putting him down. You know, just to prove that europeans aren't vassal states.
Based JD Vance blaming everything on Europe instead of Mexicans.
Was watching a clip from "the Crown" about how when Tony Blair was elected, people were contemplating getting rid of the monarchy due to how popular he was. Now a "Blairite" is a slur in British politics due to it's connotation with the Iraq war debacle. Second biggest modern mistake just behind allowing the Brexit poll and just ahead of the Lib Dems propping up the Tory government.
says the guy who can't hold a trophy without breaking it
Are they going to rename the freedom fries to vassal fries now?
The cognitive dissonance of this guy is unbelievable.
Agreed. Europe should have also done more to stop two world wars.
“Krasnov pawn works harder to destabilize the west”
This has strong putana history vibes going.
I LOLd for real
US Vice President JD Vance has called on European states to show greater independence, urging them not to be US "vassals." He also said EU governments could have done more to oppose Washington over the Iraq War.
fully agree, couldn't agree more. many died, for what?
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