Originally posted by: ShadesOfGrey
Originally posted by: Isaiah
Originally posted by: ShadesOfGrey
Originally posted by: Isaiah
Originally posted by: ShadesOfGrey
Originally posted by: Isaiah
Originally posted by: ShadesOfGrey
Originally posted by: Isaiah
People will start to listen when 350,000(the real number... you can't listen to what the media reports, or in this case doesn't report) thousand people march on the Whitehouse.
Let us know when you reach that number because Saturday's little anti-whatever protest didn't come close to 350K. 100K - maybe, but not even close to what some of you are trying to claim.
Pretty pituful that the anti-war movement can't even get better numbers than a year ago with this anti-whatever protest. I thought there was a "surge" or "increase" in the movement. Doesn't seem like it from the results of the anti-whatever protest.
I am unsure where you get your numbers from... yes CNN and others only reported 100,000(at first they said 20,000 and then changed the number). However I'm getting my count from people that were on the ground... the park ranger I talked with even said there was more then 200,000 people there.
I love it when people make very untruthful statements like "the anti-war movement can't even get better numbers than a year ago with this anti-whatever protest". Umm, even the major news outlets disagree with that!
?Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting "Peace now" in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion.?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html
Umm - the protests a year ago March were 125K+ This one didn't hit that number. The pictures don't lie and they've been analyzed. No where near what you anti-whatever people are claiming.
So, can you explain why the major news outlets are calling this the largest anti-war protest since the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Have you looked at any of the pictures of the protest? Maybe if you did you would change your mind... I was there I know what it was like.
Because you can't read. They stated that it was the biggest in the nation's Capital. The rally a year ago March was organized for NewYork.
BTW, I've seen many pictures from the anti-whatever rally- not just yours. They paint a broad picture of what transpired that day. Plus I don't need you to tell me what these things are like - i've been there and know the kinds of people they draw. Many different types to be sure, so don't try to play the game of claiming they are all just your everyday person fed up with the War.
I suppose you got some good "literature" while there - no? :laugh: I was stocked with enough by the time I left one to keep my fireplace stocked with good starter paper for an entire winter
Even not in the Capital, I am unable to find a protest that was bigger then this one... can you provide a link?
I agree there were many different types of people, however many of them were just your "everyday person fed up with the war".
Literature, yes sure there was lots of that, however I'm wasn't really interested in lugging heaps of it around with me, only to let it sit in a pile by my desk. If I want to find out about things I can easily search on Google, I do not need to read their pamphlets.
cBS link good enough for you?
Sure, there were some everyday normal people there, never said there weren't, but to suggest that was the typical attendee - you'd have to be willingly ignorant or just flat out dishonest.
It says "...organizers for last year's event estimated the crowd at more than 250,000". However organizer for this protest have this to say "We had hoped for 100,000 people, and more than 300,000 joined the protest". Seems like more to me?