What a funny headline. It leaves out the part about the NYT having most of the information wrong in its earlier articles on the subject.
Luckily the public wrote in over 1,000 letters to help clairfy the situation.
Rally in Washington Is Said to Invigorate the Antiwar Movement
By Kate Zernike.

Emboldened by a weekend antiwar protest in Washington that organizers called the biggest since the days of the Vietnam War, groups opposed to military action in Iraq said they were preparing a wave of new demonstrations across the country in the next few weeks.
The demonstration on Saturday in Washington drew 100,000 by police estimates and 200,000 by organizers’, forming a two-mile wall of marchers around the White House. The turnout startled even organizers, who had taken out permits for 20,000 marchers. They expected 30 buses, and were surprised by about 650, coming from as far as Nebraska and Florida.
A companion demonstration in San Francisco attracted 42,000 protesters, city police there said, and smaller groups demonstrated in other cities, including about 800 in Austin, Tex., and 2,500 in Augusta, Me.

Here’s the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/national/30PROT.html
The New York Times The New York Times National October 30, 2002
DISSENT
Rally in Washington Is Said to Invigorate the Antiwar Movement
By KATE ZERNIKE
Emboldened by a weekend antiwar protest in Washington that organizers called the biggest since the days of the Vietnam War, groups opposed to military action in Iraq said they were preparing a wave of new demonstrations across the country in the next few weeks.
The demonstration on Saturday in Washington drew 100,000 by police estimates and 200,000 by organizers’, forming a two-mile wall of marchers around the White House. The turnout startled even organizers, who had taken out permits for 20,000 marchers. They expected 30 buses, and were surprised by about 650, coming from as far as Nebraska and Florida.
A companion demonstration in San Francisco attracted 42,000 protesters, city police there said, and smaller groups demonstrated in other cities, including about 800 in Austin, Tex., and 2,500 in Augusta, Me.
“The rally was like a huge gust of wind into the sails of the antiwar movement,” said Brian Becker, an organizer of the Washington protest. “Our goal was not simply to have a big demonstration, but to give the movement confidence that it could prevail. The massive turnout showed it’s legitimate, and it’s big.”
Building on those demonstrations, a coalition of groups called International Answer