That number seems bogus to me. The Iraqis at the blog IRAQ THE MODEL put the number at about 5,000.
Wasn’t it more like 7,000?
1. Popularity no longer matters for Bush.
2. The rally was quite small.
3. Sadr is a coward— out of the country— and everyone knows it
4. Iraqis are more united against terrorism than evere.
That's a pretty serious difference. I doubt the military would lowball it that much if the crowd was a million.
Anyway, as far as getting us out, if the duly constituted government of Iraq said Yankee go home, we'd have a pretty hard time staying.
Iranians organized much of the protest, and the protest number in the article is inflated. Also, al-Sadr’s people are resigning from their cabinet positions in Iraq. That piece might be good propaganda for goading our leaders into taking care of business with Iran, though.
“Over a million Iraqis, holding aloft thousands of national flags, marched,”
Mr. Hiro must have been the only person who saw this. I wonder what axe he has to grind.
a million or a hundred thousand or 7000...
would have been dead had they tried it with Saddam in power...
and they wouldn't’t have tried it.
There was a picture on the webb of the demonstration. First a tight shot that looked like tens of thousands and then a long shot that showed what a poor turnout it was.
Think about it.
If a million people had marched we’d still be hearing about it on the MSM. In point of fact, however, most accounts had the march a failure and the stories were brief and quickly dropped from coverage.
Asia Times has a stable of Islamists and anti-American writers.
Does the million man number seem accurate from what you know or are we looking at more creative math here?
A million Iraqis in the same place? At a “political” rally? The death toll would be in the 10s of thousands.