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Monday, 11 April 2005

If you missed it -- and that was actually surprisingly easy to do -- hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Baghdad, demanding a withdrawal of U.S. and U.K. troops.

Up to 300,000 people reportedly turned out. This was the largest demonstration in Iraq since 1958. Demonstrations were also held in Ramadi and Najaf.

The point of view expressed seems to be summed up by the following placards:

Eek. That's a map of Iraq, depicted as blood-red and in flames, in the hands of Bush and Blair.

I have to admit I had never noticed the fangs before. You'd think that would have been a dead giveaway.

You'll also notice that Saddam is carried right along side as an equal bad guy. The demonstrators also want him to be tried as rapidly as possible.

Now, I'm no fan of the guy most of these people are supporting. But I do think it's worth pointing out that they exist.

300,000 of them, apparently...

PS -- just for fun, compare and contrast the size of the crowd with this photo of the supposedly massive celebration when Saddam's statue was ripped down by a U.S. military vehicle for the benefit of CNN and similarly honest western news outlets.

The whole thing was eventually revealed as an Army psyops job. Really, it was. The Army itself admitted it. Like, almost a year ago.

If you read the link to CNN, note the careful framing of the photo, the lack of a crowd in the background (matching this wide-angle shot), and just how little the article actually says about the size of the "crowd."

(And now that the fakery has been officially admitted, you'd think the folks who published things like this laughably doctored photo of a large crowd, containing obvious Photoshop artifacts, would admit it. But so far... not so much, nope.)

You'd think that learning all this would have crippled the American public's faith in both the government and media.

Maybe it would have... if we had heard about it.