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[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-americans-are-unlikely-to-support-a-war-in-ukraine/ by Monica Potts 3/3/22 FiveThirtyEight] | [https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-americans-are-unlikely-to-support-a-war-in-ukraine/ by Monica Potts 3/3/22 FiveThirtyEight] | ||
Merely a week after Sept. 11, then-president George W. Bush signed a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of force against those responsible, and the U.S. and British, with international support, began bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces Oct. 7. The American public almost universally approved this rush to war: A Gallup poll conducted soon after found that 90 percent supported the war and only 5 percent opposed it. | Merely a week after Sept. 11, then-president George W. Bush signed a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of force against those responsible, and the U.S. and British, with international support, began bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces Oct. 7. The American public almost universally approved this rush to war: A Gallup poll conducted soon after found that 90 percent supported the war and only 5 percent opposed it. | ||
=====Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests===== | |||
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/07/russia-criminalizes-independent-war-reporting-anti-war-protests by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 7/3/22] | |||
Update (March 23, 2022): In the three days after the law’s adoption on March 4, Russian authorities opened at least 60 cases on the administrative offense of “discrediting Russian armed forces,” the vast majority against peaceful anti-war protesters. By March 23, at least six criminal cases had been opened for “false information” about Russian armed forces’ actions, at least three of which involved aggravated charges. Reports in the media estimate that at least 150 journalists fled Russia within two weeks of the start of this war on February 24. | |||
