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First Western tourists visit war-torn Iraq - News- msnbc.com

And on the other...

Protesters call for an end to Iraq war - Invasion Iraq: Six Years Later- msnbc.com

Picture 6 in the photostory below shows the crowd at the pentagon. It's ... underwhelming.

Marching for peace - Picture Stories- msnbc.com

"Authorities in Arlington County, Virginia, estimated there were 2,500 to 3,000 protesters. " - but it looks like a lot less to me. (You can look like a really big crowd if you've got a lot of signs and a cooperative photographer - Pictures 1 and 4 seem to show a lot of people, but 4's with a wide-angle lens pretty close, and 1 has a lot of signs. I believe picture 6 really shows the size, however, and I think there was an attempt to block it.)

You compare that protest to the pictures of the "Tea Party" protests, which are getting a LOT less coverage than the PC 'Anti-war' protests - despite having a lot MORE people apparently there...

Nah, no media bias. Why would you even THINK of such a thing?

But doesn't it strike you as rather peculiar that there'd be an Iraq war protest covered on the one hand, and a tourism article on Iraq on the other hand? Seems to me like you wouldn't be terribly interesting in touring a war zone...

J.

Update - looks like there's at least SOME local interest in the tea party phenomenon - the Orlando Sentinel reports more than 4000 people attending. Now THAT looked like a 4000 person crowd in the pictures linked above.

And people are starting to notice things...

'Tea Party' protests spending to stimulate economy - The Connecticut Post Online

"The more we talk to people the more we feel this upswell of resentment over what's happening," Francis said. "The average person who is conservative, not just Republican, but conservative -- they're not flag-wavers or placard-carriers -- they've just started to realized that if they don't do things they've never done before, the country is going to be taken away from them."

J.