By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
WASHINGTON - Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested.
The group marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war. Their numbers stretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and they held banners and signs and chanted, "What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now."
Army veteran Justin Cliburn, 25, of Lawton, Okla., was among a contingent of Iraq veterans in attendance.
"We're occupying a people who do not want us there," Cliburn said of Iraq. "We're here to show that it isn't just a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are against this war."
I suspect we should see more such protesting as this war lingers on and our government not only plans to continue it, but possibly expand it into Iran. President George Bush is like a child with a risk game, only he’s using real lives to play capture the world. He sits comfortably in his oval office while our young people die or suffer wounds that will never heal, because of his delusional desire to conquer the world.
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