 Further requisites for stronger public support included an assurance that casualties would be minimized and that the U.N. backed the invasion, which the public later observed was not the case.In the months leading up to the Iraq War and the abandoning of the resolution, anti-war protests and rhetoric gained momentum.On February 15, 2003, protests emerged in around 650 cities globally with estimates of somewhere between 6 and 11 million participants in the largest standing global protest to ever take place.