American? Nah Canadian Eh!

To think of all the trouble Tony Blair had got himself in by inventing weapons of mass destruction just so that he could have a legal pretext for invading Iraq. These days, he would just have said: 'Look guys, let's take out Saddam and get our hands on the oil' but wars for oil were done differently back then and World Leaders felt they had to try and at least make up something to justify it but seemingly not so much now.
What the Iraq War in 2003 did lead to, apart from ISIS, over a million dead and a reported $2 Trillion cost burning its way through bank accounts, was anti-American sentiment. Blair we made such a Pariah in his own country that not only was he forced out but when he popped his head up decades later to sell his iffy book, people threw shoes and eggs at it and he had to be bundled out the back door for his own safety.
Keir Starmer was at pains to point out that Britain was not involved in any way, shape or form in the kidnapping and latest warmongery by America in Venezuela but what this does return us to is the point in 2003 when Americans abroad adopted the strategy of 'pretending' to be Canadian to avoid confrontation.        
There has always been an undercurrent of anti-American feeling swirling around Britain and Europe since i can remember but it was always low level and not particularly powerful however after GW Bush and Tony Blair's Middle East adventure, it snowballed into such proportions that it even rated a question in the House of Lords.
A 2005 Pew Trusts research poll found that then anti-Americanism was deeper and broader than at any time in modern history and back then it was found the main reasons that the rest of us outside of the USA failed to hold up America as a shining example was Bush, Iraq and Israel.
Today it would be Trump, Venezuela and Israel and although it is wrong to label all Americans, how safe might they feel venturing into a hostile resentful world even if they don't support Trump? As soon as they open their mouth to speak their accent will give them away, unless they say they are Canadian because to our ears they sound the same.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with the Carrot coloured man of peace bombing and kidnapping leaders of oil rich nations until time he is no longer in charge and as i just read that despite being morbidly obese, each day he eats two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes and a chocolate milkshake, plus 12 sugar free diet cokes so it may not be that long anyway and then American's can stop pretending to be Canadian because as my Canadian friend told me 'It's like trying to pass off a Robin Reliant as a Porsche'.