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59. Argo was ok but I didn't like the way it downplayed the risks the Canadians took

Sun Feb 24, 2013, 11:16 PM

Feb 2013

Some of our allies refused to help.

Though it wasn't as bad at ignoring history as that movie a few years ago that made it appear the U.S. not the British had captured the Enigma machine.

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