This CNN story was apparently taken from an Associated Press account of May 7 from Maastricht. Perhaps the Dutch police can issue a formal count of the demonstrators that might put the record straight and allow AP\/CNN to clarify their May 7th accounts, which started out in the first paragraph with:<\/p>\n
Thousands of anti-war activists protested U.S. President George W. Bush’s visit to the Netherlands on Saturday, saying the man who started the Iraq war should not pay tribute to those who died in World War II for Dutch freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If the story turns out to be misleading or inaccurate, in the future I will not rely on either Associated Press or CNN as reliable sources, in the manner that we can no longer depend on\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0(Jayson Blair), CBS News (the Dan Rather memos), or apparently most recently\u00a0Newsweek<\/i>\u00a0Magazine (the Koran rumor story).<\/p>\n\n
\u00a92005 Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Criticism and correction on numbers of protesters in Holland by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Recently, in response to \u201cRemembering World War II,\u201d readers from the Netherlands wrote to suggest that my reference to “thousands” of Dutch protesting President Bush’s arrival in Holland was in error, and contradicted their own first-hand observations, two of which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[789],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s466Sb-footnote","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4315,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/enough-is-enough\/","url_meta":{"origin":4388,"position":0},"title":"Enough is Enough","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Civilization has two choices when facing jihadists. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the July 7 London bombings, some in the United Kingdom wondered if the bombing was in retaliation for Britain having troops in Iraq. 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