Charles Johnson

Tim Blair disputes Charles Johnson's estimate of the size of the September 12 rally. Johnson wrote: Here's the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: Metrorail: 437,624 Comparable Metrorail Ridership 1 Year Ago: 362,773 The difference between these two figures is -- 74,851. Oddly enough, this almost exactly matches the unofficial estimate given by a Washington DC Fire Department spokesman, who estimated the crowd at 60,000 to 70,000 people. Blair writes comparing September 12, 2008, to September 12, 2009, won't yield reliable…
With US combat troops withdrawing from Iraq's cities it is time to compare the 4639 coalition casualties with the predictions made by warbloggers before the war: John Hawkins: "Probably 300 or less"Charles Johnson:"Very few"Henry Hanks: "Less than 200"Laurence Simon: "A Few hundred"Rachael Lucas: "Less than three thousand"Scott Ott: "Dozens"Glenn Reynolds: "Fewer than 100"Tim Blair: "Below 50"Ken Layne: "a few hundred"Steven Den Beste: "50-150" And there were roughly a million excess Iraqi deaths.