Of the people I knowAbout 10% of people strongly oppose it.
About 10% of people are in favour of it.
The other 80% want to know what's for tea. Most people just don't care about the reasoning behind the war. Generally people feel sad for the soldiers and their families who've been killed or injured, but by and large have more important things to think about. That's my anecdotal evidence - and in the absence of empirical evidence, anecdotal evidence is all we have.
One thing is for certain; there is certainly no clear majority consensus among the population that it was wrong, which is why it pisses me off when I hear anti-war protesters claiming that the majority of people were against the war when there is absolutely no evidence to support this. Until all 63 million people have been asked, you can't know that. If 1 million people march in protest, all you can prove is that 1 million people are against it.
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Tue 18 Aug 2009, 11:09,
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About 10% of people are in favour of it.
The other 80% want to know what's for tea. Most people just don't care about the reasoning behind the war. Generally people feel sad for the soldiers and their families who've been killed or injured, but by and large have more important things to think about. That's my anecdotal evidence - and in the absence of empirical evidence, anecdotal evidence is all we have.
One thing is for certain; there is certainly no clear majority consensus among the population that it was wrong, which is why it pisses me off when I hear anti-war protesters claiming that the majority of people were against the war when there is absolutely no evidence to support this. Until all 63 million people have been asked, you can't know that. If 1 million people march in protest, all you can prove is that 1 million people are against it.
Or you could look at protests on other issues and compare turnoutto public support.
That way you'll get at least a good approximation of numbers, anecdotally speaking.
Fortunately most of the people I know care about how their government represents them internationally. Most of them care as much, if not more, for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who were killed in Iraq as for the soldiers.
And as for "there is certainly no clear majority consensus among the population that it was wrong"...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/20/iraq.iraq
(That way you'll get at least a good approximation of numbers, anecdotally speaking.
Fortunately most of the people I know care about how their government represents them internationally. Most of them care as much, if not more, for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who were killed in Iraq as for the soldiers.
And as for "there is certainly no clear majority consensus among the population that it was wrong"...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/20/iraq.iraq
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Tue 18 Aug 2009, 12:55,
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