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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War. Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War. Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.
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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War. Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War. Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.
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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War. Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War. Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.
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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War. Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War. Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.
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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War. Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War. Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.
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10 Year After The World’s Largest Protest

Ten years ago yesterday (February 15th), the world saw what was by some accounts the largest single coordinated protest in history. Roughly ten to fifteen million people (estimates vary widely) assembled and marched in more than six hundred cities: as many as three million flooded the streets of Rome; more than a million massed in London and Barcelona; an estimated 200,000 rallied in San Francisco and 400,000 in New York. From Auckland to Vancouver—and everywhere in between—tens of thousands came out, joining their voices in one simple, global message: No to the Iraq War.

Slightly a month later, on March 20th, 2003, the American-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of Iraq without declaring war.The invasion led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.

Civilian and combatant deaths are estimated by the Iraq Body Count project to be 172,907. According to Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, $3 trillion dollars were spent on the Iraq War.

Malnutrition rates have risen from 19% before the U.S.‑led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. Some 60–70% of Iraqi children are suffering from psychological problems. 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq is thought to be the result of poor water quality. As many as half of Iraqi doctors have left the country since 2003.

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