It’s a shame It didn’t exist back then. I see so many people claiming “Well I was actually against the war in Iraq the US government never fooled me!”. If twitter did exist back then, It would certainly lead to a bunch of “Caught in 4k” moments now lmao.
Some people did oppose it – I was a kid at the time, and I remember some pretty big protests in the news, including on the day of the invasion. But I also remember a lot of people who were gung-ho for the war turning against it later, and saying that they’d always known the government was lying.
Yep, I was a kid in the US too, but I remember the anti-war movement was much stronger than anything since then. Now the anti-war movement is essentially dead outside of US communist parties.
Yeah I heard about the protests and there definitely were Americans that didn’t support the war. The war support was still pretty high tho. I remember reading a survey about American support for the Iraq war. From my understanding they asked 1400 something American adults back then and in 2018 about what they thought about the war. In 2003, 71% people supported the war. In 2014, 50% called it wrong while only 38% said it was right. In 2018, 48% said the war was wrong but 43% of people said it was the right decision. Judging by these numbers you would expect some people to admit they either supported the war back then or even that they think the war was a good decision now. However I have not seen anyone directly admit to it since the Russian invasion. Closest thing I saw was “the war in Iraq was different” but when someone follows that up with “Do you think it was justified then?” they backpedal and say no. Really strange.
It’s a shame It didn’t exist back then. I see so many people claiming “Well I was actually against the war in Iraq the US government never fooled me!”. If twitter did exist back then, It would certainly lead to a bunch of “Caught in 4k” moments now lmao.
Some people did oppose it – I was a kid at the time, and I remember some pretty big protests in the news, including on the day of the invasion. But I also remember a lot of people who were gung-ho for the war turning against it later, and saying that they’d always known the government was lying.
Yep, I was a kid in the US too, but I remember the anti-war movement was much stronger than anything since then. Now the anti-war movement is essentially dead outside of US communist parties.
Yeah I heard about the protests and there definitely were Americans that didn’t support the war. The war support was still pretty high tho. I remember reading a survey about American support for the Iraq war. From my understanding they asked 1400 something American adults back then and in 2018 about what they thought about the war. In 2003, 71% people supported the war. In 2014, 50% called it wrong while only 38% said it was right. In 2018, 48% said the war was wrong but 43% of people said it was the right decision. Judging by these numbers you would expect some people to admit they either supported the war back then or even that they think the war was a good decision now. However I have not seen anyone directly admit to it since the Russian invasion. Closest thing I saw was “the war in Iraq was different” but when someone follows that up with “Do you think it was justified then?” they backpedal and say no. Really strange.