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Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 04:06:43 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

It's the anniversary of the start of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
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  Iraq War
  
  The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict persisted as an insurgency arose against coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading a new coalition under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, as the conflict evolved into the ongoing Islamic State insurgency. The Iraq invasion was part of the Bush administration's broader war on terror, launched in response to the September 11 attacks. In October 2002, the US Congress passed a resolution granting Bush the authority to use military force against Iraq. The war began on March 20, 2003, when the US, joined by the UK, Australia, and Poland, initiated a "shock and awe" bombing...
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 04:06:40 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @darius @jalcine I remember the protests. It was a vicious, stupid, pointless war. The world knew it, Americans knew it, and it happened anyway.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Iraq_War?wprov=sfla1
  
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  Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 04:06:41 JST Darius Kazemi
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  @jalcine I remember it so so so so clearly, it's up there with 9/11 for me
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 04:08:47 JST Evan Prodromou
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests?wprov=sfla1
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    15 February 2003 anti-war protests
    
    On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history". According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of 15 and 16 February. The largest protests took place in Europe. The one in Rome involved around three million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history. Madrid hosted the second largest rally with more than 1.5 million people protesting against the invasion of Iraq. In Beijing, three smaller protests were held the following day, attended by foreigners and domestic students. Background In 2002, the United States government began to argue for the necessity of invading Iraq....

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