# Anti-War protesters change their minds...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protesters-change-their-minds/163555>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 23, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protesters-change-their-minds/163555 "2003-03-23T15:29:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandySpears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@RandySpears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandySpears)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protesters-change-their-minds/163555/101 "2003-04-07T15:24:10Z")

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Munster:

“Liberation” is your personal interpretation of this war. Others may agree. Will the iraqis?

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> And if I haven’t interpreted the gist of your posts correctly, then tell me where I am wrong. When in your opinion would it be okay for America to act unanimously without the consent of the UN?

I hope never. Save should the hypothetical situations, that are so often constructed to prove that breaking the rules are okay, actually one day materialize in the real world.

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**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protesters-change-their-minds/163555/102 "2003-04-07T21:01:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RandySpears \*  
> \*\*Well **Sam** , let’s give you a camcorder and send you south of the border, and see if you couldn’t come up with _someone_ begging the Canadians to liberate Chicago.
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> Now, just to make myself perfectly clear:
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> I **do not** claim that most Iraqis don’t hate Saddam.
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> I **do not** dispute that many Iraqis may welcome an invasion.
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> But I **do** require better support for your claim that “the citizens of [Iraq]… are begging [the US] to come”, than that **some** Iraqis have said so on camera.
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> It is a matter of how you can safely generalize from individuals to the population of a country. \*\*

If the Iran and Kuwait newsmedia can be believed, Iraq civilians are rebelling in Baghdad and Bosria right now killing members of the Republican guard and other Saddam cronies. How that? Is that good enough support for American and British troops and their war of liberation?

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**Author:** ![RandySpears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@RandySpears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandySpears)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protesters-change-their-minds/163555/103 "2003-04-07T21:25:59Z")

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**lekatt:**

Not yet. Not even remotely so.

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