• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That 36 million is a global figure. And yes, by 2005, two years after it started, public opinion had turned against it.

    Here’s an except from that article with some specific events noted:

    On September 12, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Outside the United Nations building, over 1,000 people attended a protest organized by Voter March and No Blood for Oil.

    On September 24, Tony Blair released a document describing Britain’s case for war in Iraq. Three days later, an anti-war rally in London drew a crowd of at least 150,000.[11]

    On September 29, roughly 5,000 anti-war protesters converged on Washington, D.C., on the day after an anti-International Monetary Fund protest.[12

    Note how much larger the London crowd was than the Washington DC crowd.