![]() Rowland, the owner of Cubbie's, a sports bar in Beaufort, NC, came up with the idea to rename the foodstuff as "freedom fries," citing the anti-German sentiment that led to the renaming of sauerkraut as "liberty cabbage" and frankfurters as "hot dogs" during WWI (though the term "hot dog" was coined in the late 1800s, and not as a reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand). But unlike the canceling of Coke, this campaign started with a constituent, Neal Rowland, a North Carolina restaurateur.īEAUFORT, NC - FEBRUARY 20: Restaurant owner Neal Rowland holds a plate of his Freedom Fries Februin Beaufort, North Carolina. This did not go over well with Republicans. ![]() And at least one pair of them belonged to French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, who, as a member of the United Nations Security Council, pledged to veto any resolution mandating an invasion of Iraq and refused to provide military support to the coalition.ĭe Villepin said the US, which was represented at the UN by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, had failed to convincingly connect the dots between Osama Bin-Laden's Al-Qaeda and Iraq, or show any evidence the country had weapons of mass destruction. The Orwellian sloganeering coming from the White House fell on a lot of deaf ears. While Bush enjoyed fairly broad domestic support as Americans rallied behind his administration, the view from Europe - which had its own history of terrorism - was more nuanced, and many countries didn't buy the "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" line Bush made famous in a speech to Congress in the weeks after the attacks. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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