The USA actually still had troops in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc. And the protests were to prevent an invasion from happening in the first place, not to go in, kill a million people and then 2 decades down the line throw up your hands and say ‘that was a mistake’ with no consequences for anyone that pushed for it.
I personally feel like a lot came out of it, though. The USA left Iraq for example.
jonne@infosec.pub 9 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In 2007 there were 170,000 troops in Iraq
In 2010 there were 88,000
In 2024 there were 2,500
jonne@infosec.pub 9 months ago
And the number there should be is 0, I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here. People didn’t want a war in Iraq in 2003, there were mass peaceful protests, and yet it still happened.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The number absolutely should not be 0. It’s a nation which actively funds and mobilizes religious extremists who execute homosexuals and treat women as cattle.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
post hoc ergo propter hoc. the invention of Facebook was just as much a cause of leaving Iraq. or flat screen TVs. or Blu-ray disks.
which is to say the protests didn’t change anything.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Politicians making decisions based on public opinion has a lot of cause and effect relation. By all accounts it would have been easier to maintain a 40k to 100k presence in Iraq than it was to pack everything up and leave.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
please prove a casual link between protests and the ending of the war
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
People opposed the pointless war whose only winners were Exxo n Mobil.
People voted the party who started the war out of power.
The opposition party withdrew from the region.