• sqgl
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    3 days ago

    600k Australians protested against the Iraq war in 2003.

    The population was about 20m so 3.5% of that is 700k. So if another 100k had joined then the protest would have succeeded?

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      No, if another 100k Australians had come out and then kept protesting day in day out for weeks/months they would have got the aus government to back down and not support the war.