crowd vs. crowd

hey remember that iconic scene six years ago today when u.s. troops took baghdad and pulled down a statue of saddam with iraqis looking on and cheering? CNN called the iraqis a "crowd", but this is a shot of the square when the statue was coming down:

today "crowds" of iraqis gathered in the same square demanding u.s. forces leave the country. this is what that "crowd" looked like:

(top photo via DU, bottom photo via think progress)