alt Hacker NewsMany 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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jeltz • last Saturday at 1:09 PM
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.
JeanMarcS • last Saturday at 1:21 PM
And that was when the "French always surrender" meme started to pop up on the Internet. US propaganda at the time
> 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...