During the Nazi occupation of France, around two percent of French citizens momentarily ceased eating, and debating fresh air, to join the Resistance. After the war, it was said a quarter of French citizens claimed they too were part of that romance.
I remember, as a boy of 12, the one million or so demonstrators marching through London, protesting the looming invasion of Iraq. Back then, two-thirds supported with full throats and empty minds the Iraq war. Today, such people are thin on the ground. Nobody, it seems, ever supported the war in Iraq.
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