# Did the US ever apologize to the nations it blasted for not joining the Iraq war?

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**Created:** [May 14, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-us-ever-apologize-to-the-nations-it-blasted-for-not-joining-the-iraq-war/404092 "2007-05-14T20:45:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-us-ever-apologize-to-the-nations-it-blasted-for-not-joining-the-iraq-war/404092/21 "2007-05-15T16:03:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
The closest we will get to an apology to France is to drop the term Freedom Fries.  
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You’ll get my 'freedom fries" when you pry them from my cold, oily fingers!

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-us-ever-apologize-to-the-nations-it-blasted-for-not-joining-the-iraq-war/404092/22 "2007-05-15T16:08:39Z")

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[QUOTE=CalMeacham]  
C’mon, are you serious? Apologizing for past blunders, and dredging up all that unpleasant stuff, reminding voters of your mistakes, is something most politicians would avoid at all costs (not just our current Administration).  
On top of which, I don’t think the current administration has ever admitted to any error. Cheney keeps dragging out the implication that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.  
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This is it in a nutshell. If our Witless Leader felt compelled to apologize, we wouldn’t be in Iraq now.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-us-ever-apologize-to-the-nations-it-blasted-for-not-joining-the-iraq-war/404092/23 "2007-05-15T16:32:21Z")

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[QUOTE=DrDeth]  
Right. They did. Just like _our_ Intel groups gave _our_ Pres what _he_ wanted to hear. There was so miuch Intel on thisissue that you could read and assort it selectively and come out with any desired result.

\*Blix \*thought there were WMD- before he got back in, that is.  
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And you still show that you are still blind about the sands of time telling us later who was correct.

As your last pathetic jab showed, timelines are deftly avoided by the extreme right to maintain unfounded opinions of that kind.

But there is hope, you finally are seeing that intelligence was selected, not wondering (or demanding to know) why the wrong intelligence was selected remains part of the problem. As it is Republicans not complaining why their leaders stonewalled investigations on why the intelligence was selected that way.

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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