MASSIVE Baghdad Protests

[brettdale]

Well I have just been to Michael Moore's web page and seen the pictures of the protestors in Baghad against the occupation.

As usual on Fox's web page not even one line about it, not much about it on other media outlets also, still CNN tops it all, they did report on it, but they said several thousand people showed up, they missed out a word "several HUNDRED thousand people" showed up.

[TR Fan]

1. And you base that estimate on what?

[brettdale]

3. the pictures

The photos on the web.

[TR Fan]

4. You can see 100's of thousands of people in the pictures?

[brettdale]

13. here is a picture of Iraqi Protestors

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[Lone Pawn]

2. Hundreds of thousands? Link?

I've heard tens.

[annabanana]

5. CNN blew it big time...used "How times have changed" tack...

They reshowed the tight shots of the toppling of Saddam's statue saying how happy the Iraqi's HAD been at that time..Then showed a couple of tight shots of the protests today...

Implying, of course, that the first "demonstrations" were equivalent to today's...

There are threads here today that have wide shots of both...
BIG difference.

[stevedeshazer]

6. link to earlier thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1381793

[Terran1212]

7. Don't argue over numbers!

Just be happy that the Iraqis are ready to take on their own future...most importantly without US interference.

[TR Fan]

8. But is is a matter of "numbers"

or why didn't the poster say "millions" or "hundreds of millions?" This sort of rhetoric is silly and makes us look that way.

[pacalo]

10. Your statement is very contrary to what this Iraqi female blogger

has to say about life in Iraq: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

My favorite part:

Furthermore, I don’t understand the worlds fascination with reality shows. Survivor, The Bachelor, Murder in Small Town X, Faking It, The Contender… it’s endless. Is life so boring that people need to watch the conjured up lives of others?

I have a suggestion of my own for a reality show. Take 15 Bush supporters and throw them in a house in the suburbs of, say, Falloojeh for at least 14 days. We could watch them cope with the water problems, the lack of electricity, the check points, the raids, the Iraqi National Guard, the bombings, and- oh yeah- the ‘insurgents’. We could watch their house bombed to the ground and their few belongings crushed under the weight of cement and brick or simply burned or riddled with bullets. We could see them try to rebuild their life with their bare hands (and the equivalent of $150)…

I’d not only watch *that* reality show, I’d tape every episode.

[pacalo]

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[Old and In the Way]

9. Obviously, those must be Democratic Iraqi's......

now if they had a brain dead Iraqi women whose husband wanted to pull the plug over the objections of her parents, we'd have it covered 24/7...