Jeffrey Sachs
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Shall we compare this to support for previous wars, which also ended disastrously, by the way?
The Afghanistan war, there was overwhelming support because, you know, the thought, OK, there was an actual connection between Afghanistan and 9-11.
Bin Laden was genuinely hiding out there.
And so even Democrats, 90 percent, were in support of, OK, let's go into Afghanistan.
And even that, we see the way that 20 years later, it was a total catastrophe and just ended with the Taliban back in power.
The Iraq War, you can see overall, even though there was some dissent, I was part of it, there was some dissent, but still overwhelming support, 72% supported military action in Iraq.
Think about that.
And now here we are today.
For Iran, 34%, 34% supporting military action against Iran.
And that is likely to be effectively at the peak because already things are going sideways.
And I want people to take note.
And we're going to do some of the, we're going to cover some of this tomorrow of especially the, you know, a bunch of the Republicans are basically going to go along with whatever Trump, you'll have very few, you'll have,
Some notable and very courageous dissenters, Thomas Massey, maybe Rand Paul, maybe a couple others, okay?
On the Democratic side, you have a divide.
You have some people who are quite clear, no war with Iran.
And then you have the bullshit Republicans.
process group that are like, well, he didn't brief us and he didn't make his case.
Then he needs to make his case to the American people.
I want you all to remember who those people are.
Take note of where everyone is right now, because I believe a year from now, even I don't even think it's going to take that long with Iraq.