Dear Americans: I am really fucking sick of explaining that the Iraq war was MASSIVELY unpopular everywhere but in America and I guess Britain. Being against that war was super fucking normal everywhere else. Stop being so fucking self centered. Kanye was never going to be a fucking Marxist leader. This is absurd
The war barely crested 50% before the invasion and sank. A year in...
The period from November 2003 to October 2004 the public opinion on the war varied noticeably. Public support went "from a high of more than 55% in mid-December immediately after the capture of Saddam Hussein, to a low of 39% in mid to late June just before the U.S. transferred power to the newly formed Iraqi government."
None of this shit mattered, because politicians don't respond to public sentiment, they simply move to deflect attention or blame.
But without a continuously hammered media war drum, pro-war sentiment tanks out quickly.
Ehh, even in 1992 there was a majority of Americans who favored going back and removing Saddam.
The nadir of support for the war was still almost 40%, and after the media machine stopped prioritizing the war, it was about half and half for a few years. Even during the Obama admin, Dem support for the war reached a majority.
Also, like, I'm in a country that literally did not participate in the war despite being Canada, so yeah, it was more popular in America where they sent an army
Dear Americans: I am really fucking sick of explaining that the Iraq war was MASSIVELY unpopular everywhere but in America and I guess Britain. Being against that war was super fucking normal everywhere else. Stop being so fucking self centered. Kanye was never going to be a fucking Marxist leader. This is absurd
THIS IS REVISIONISM.
KANYE WEST WOULD HAVE IMPLODED THE AMERIKAN EMPIRE ONCE HE ACHIEVED FULL CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
The subconscious bloodlust of the amerikan people CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED.
I thought politics was like news and banned bits. I am now fully onboard. Praise our glorious Gay Fish Leader of the People
:smoking-fish: Voice of a generation.
It was unpopular in America, too.
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Biggest anti-war protests in US history happened in 2003, and they dragged on well into 2012.
People we're crying "It's Vietnam all over again" on day one, and they were right.
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"Most unpopular" as in maybe 30-40% of the population was against it at the time.
:amerikkka-clap:
At it's popular peak.
The war barely crested 50% before the invasion and sank. A year in...
None of this shit mattered, because politicians don't respond to public sentiment, they simply move to deflect attention or blame.
But without a continuously hammered media war drum, pro-war sentiment tanks out quickly.
Ehh, even in 1992 there was a majority of Americans who favored going back and removing Saddam.
The nadir of support for the war was still almost 40%, and after the media machine stopped prioritizing the war, it was about half and half for a few years. Even during the Obama admin, Dem support for the war reached a majority.
https://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/19/public-attitudes-toward-the-war-in-iraq-20032008/
Americans love their war. That's the primary reason why Biden is so unpopular now.
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Also, like, I'm in a country that literally did not participate in the war despite being Canada, so yeah, it was more popular in America where they sent an army
We didn't send troops