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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6842927/Thousands protest, hold vigils on inauguration
Demonstrators in Washington, other cities focus wrath on Iraq war
Jim Bourg / Reuters
Police officers fire streams of pepper spray into a crowd of protesters after demonstrators threw objects over the fence at police, as the Bush inaugural parade passes by on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington Thursday.
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:34 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2005
Thousands of people in dozens of cities across the nation walked out of work and school, held mock coronations, intoned the names of the Iraq war dead and held candlelight vigils to show their disapproval of President Bush as he was sworn in for his second term.
From Bridgewater, Mass., to San Francisco, the protesters carried a similar message Thursday, deploring the war in Iraq, angry about the Patriot Act and concerned about the next four years.
“The administration thinks it’s got a mandate to continue its policies,” said David Williams, a 49-year-old construction company owner from Oakland, Calif., who wore a T-shirt to the San Francisco march with Bush’s picture and the description, “International Terrorist.”
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