note the first two paragraphs from the Reuters report on the demonstrators, especially the designation "thousands". (i forget dougR, is Reuters an acceptable source or are they just a bunch of bloggers with "opinions"?)
        

    Washington - Flag-draped coffins and jeering anti-war protesters competed with pomp and circumstance on Thursday at the inauguration of President Bush along the snow-dusted, barricaded streets of central Washington.

    As the president's motorcade made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House amid the tightest security in inaugural history, thousands of protesters along the parade route and nearby downtown streets booed, chanted slogans and carried placards condemning Bush's policies at home and abroad.