1 year ago today
Wow, it’s been a whole year. One year ago today, around 11 million people around the world protested against the planned war against Iraq.
Rome, Italy (2.5 mil)
Antarctica (51)
Madrid, Spain (1 million)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Here’s 180 more pictures, and a Google search that gets a lot of pages about it. Wikipedia has some context and numbers.
Of course, none of this made any difference to the outcome. Instead we spent between $100 and $166 billion, killed over 600 and wounded between 3000 and 10,000 Coalition
soldiers and killed 8000-10,000 Iraqi civilians to produce a colossal mess.
But things aren’t all bad:
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