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by consumer451 1254 days ago
> US's war on Iraq was declared with widespread popular support.

While "widespread" might be accurate generally speaking, it is also accurate to say that it was the least popular war in my life time by a giant margin.

The protests were huge. The House vote for Iraq was extremely one-sided politically. Obama ran, and won, on having voted against it. It was really dependent on your political scene whether Iraq II was normalized or not.