AP: War Anniversary Draws Protestors To D.C.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_on_re_us/iraq_protest;_ylt=Atv5ej3mvr7QWUBB4rOU1kCs0NUE

War anniversary draws protesters to D.C.
By LARRY MARGASAK and CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
34 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Denouncing a conflict entering its fifth year, protesters raised their voices Saturday against U.S. policy in Iraq and marched by the thousands to the Pentagon in the footsteps of an epic demonstration four decades ago against another divisive war.

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Thousands crossed the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial to rally as close to the Pentagon as they could get. Smaller protests were organized across the country and held abroad, stretching to Tuesday's four-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

"Too many people have died and it doesn't solve anything," said Ann O'Grady, who drove through snow with her husband, Tom, and two children, 13 and 10, from Athens, Ohio. "I feel bad carrying out my daily activities while people are suffering, Americans and Iraqis."

Retired Marine Jeff Carroll, 47, an electrician in Milton, Del., held a sign saying: "Proud of our soldiers, ashamed of our president." Carroll said he served in Lebanon when the Marine barracks was bombed in a deadly attack in 1983, and thinks the U.S. should be focusing on Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden instead of Iraq. "We're fighting the wrong country."

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1. Anyone have pics of this event. I would love to be there in person.

Thanks to everyone who made the trip.

[leftchick]

2. here you go.....

Demonstrators opposed to the Iraq war march across the Memorial Bridge in Washington Saturday, March 17, 2006 during an anit-war protest to mark the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the war. The Lincoln Memorial is in the background. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/031806antiwar/im:/070317/480/vada10303171838

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3. Thank you.

I had planned to go to D.C. last night and get pics of both the candlelight vigil and the march, but I found I just wasn't physically up to the 5 hour drive. Plus I had family visiting. That's a good pic.

[leftchick]

5. I wanted to go too

my children need me at home so I didn't. I am there in spirit though. The vigil photos are beautiful. :)



An anti-war protester kneels in front of the White House before being arrested during a demonstration protesting the war in Iraq in Washington, March 16, 2007. On Saturday, thousands of anti-war demonstrators, some carrying yellow and black signs reading 'U.S. out of Iraq now!' marched toward the Pentagon. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

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4. Self-delete

[Vadem]

6. It is on C-Span this very minute........Rocky Anderson, Mayor....

of Salt Lake City (D) is blasting Bush and the war!