Jeffrey Sachs
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And in spite of that overwhelming war propaganda, you still have only 27 adults who are like, yes to this.
Even in the Republican Party, a majority support of 55%, only 13% outright opposed.
We've got a big swath there, 32% that are like, not sure.
Democrats, only 7% support.
I think they're all elected here in D.C., apparently, all 7% of those Democrats that support this.
And then with the independents, you've got 19% support.
Let's put the next one up on the screen to see another poll.
Here you go.
This is from the AP.
21% only support it in this particular poll, and a near majority, 49%, oppose.
30% say that they are not sure.
Let's compare this.
Let's put D4 up on the screen.
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.