"Hundreds attended pro war rally in Washington DC"

[Bluzmann57]

Just heard this on CNN Radio news. They also stated that the turnout was "Less than expected". Yesterday they said "Thousands attend Anti war rally in Washington DC". Just something to think about.

[noahmijo]

1. The flat earthers and the torries numbers seem to be thinning by the hour

[jrthin]

2. Four hundred to be exact. nt

[DancingBear]

5. Only if they counted using dog years n/t

[liveoaktx]

3. Organizers hoped to draw several thousand people...

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/5017340/detail.html

[PSPS]

4. I wonder how many were paid congressional staffers

That's their M.O., like they did during the Florida recount. This time, though, they didn't even have to pay their airfare!

[leftchick]

6. let us contrast and compare photos....

all of the photos of the pro-war freaks are tight shots. I assume because there are so very few there on a very large area.





Charlotte and Doug Smette from Makoti, N.D., whose son Keith, a National Guardsman (seen in photograph), was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, comfort each other during a rally in support of the war in Iraq on the National Mall Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 in Washington. Military families and others defending the war in Iraq claimed on Sunday their turn to demonstrate on the National Mall, a response to the massive protest against the war a day earlier. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)




A large rally of anti-war demonstrators gathers on the Ellipse near the White House (Top) as seen from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. September 24, 2005. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the nation's capital in support of anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, who lost a son serving in the U.S. armed forces in Iraq, and demonstrated for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

[DancingBear]

7. Hi leftchick

Glad the group made it back home safe and sound.

T'was a pleasure to meet you all.

[leftchick]

9. It was great to meet you all as well!

check out the yahoo photo gallery of the protests...

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/102602iraqprotests/im:/050925/480/dccd10409252008

:hi:

[Old and In the Way]

8. Looks like the street to the immediate is packed up past the Ellipse, too.

I'd say easily 300,000....

[leftchick]

15. I was absolutely overwhelmed

At least 300,000 or perhaps 500,000? It is hard to tell because this is a shot of only a portion of the crowd. They were all over the mall, ellipse, and pouring into and out of the street at the same time. I was awed!

[bklyncowgirl]

17. Not just the street., that grassy area behind the crowd was roped off.

There were plenty of people behind that area and also over at the peace fair. I couldn't get close to the stage at the Ellipse so I was wandering around in those areas.

[alphafemale]

10. They still don't know that writing on a flag is a "No-No?"

I say "No-No" because the word desecration is probably beyond their grasp.

[tlsmith1963]

11. So it Was a Failure :)

Good. That means the public is more on our side.

Tammy

[Old and In the Way]

16. Given the bust of a pro-war demonstration 2 years ago, the worst

thing they could have done was to schedule a rally the day after the Peace March. It was like saying to the world, "see how irrelevant and inconsequential we are and how no one on our side supports this administration!"

I'll bet Kristinn Taylor from Free Republic is passed out from drowning his sorrows with Ole Grandad tonight. He was pitching 20,000 and I had heard the Move America Forward clowns were throwing out 100,000 to cap their busted trip accross the country. We should send him a thank you note.

[tnlefty]

12. I just wish that I'd taken a picture of the porta-potties!

There wasn't a time when I/we tried to use one that the line wasn't 10 people to 20 deep! And the poor freepers...so many porta-potties so few to use them!

[wellstone dem]

13. On CNN Headline News they

said 1,200 attended today, and that organizers had hoped for 20,000. They went on to say that 100,000 attended yesterdays rally.

[MaggieSwanson]

14. I saw no more than 8...

But it took 4 and a half hours to get from the elipse to near the WH, so they might have already left...

[NMMNG]

18. In the Washington Times it said "Several Dozen" Pro-war protestors

:rofl: Not much competition for over 100K of us.

[gulliver]

19. It may have been the more effective demo of the two...

... for our side.