On Monday, March 29, 2004 at 13:16:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes: >... >Yes, "more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr >demonstrated peacefully," but that is a tiny minority in the nation >of 24,683,313 (July 2003 est., ><http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html>), and >even counting any and all who have spoken to the press, demonstrated, >and taken up arms against the occupation, you would still end up with >a minority of the Iraqi population. ...
Let me get this right: since only 1,000 out of 24 million came out for a very vocal demonstration, that shows how cowed they are; therefore, 10,000 in the U.S., keeping proportions constant, shows the same thing? Bill
