Almost 200 Arrests in Iraq War Protest
News.com.au | 17 Sep 2007 | staff
THOUSANDS of angry protesters, including the families of dead US soldiers, have marched in Washington today demanding an end to the war in Iraq, the return of US troops, and the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
Police arrested 197 people, including dozens of veterans and activists, as they crossed police lines, organisers said.
About 4000 to 6000 protesters gathered outside the White House yesterday before marching under a clear sky to the US Capitol building.
Many waved placards that read “Support our troops and stop the war”, and “Impeach Bush”.
Several dozen demonstrators stretched out on their backs in front of Congress, which was not in session, in what they termed a “die-in”, drawing attention to the rising death toll in insurgency-stricken Iraq.
Police also used pepper-spray to disperse the crowd, according to the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) coalition, the group that organised the march.
US television networks have broadcast pictures of scuffles between protesters and police.
Phil Aliff, 21, marched wearing his camouflage uniform jacket as part of a group called Iraq Veterans Against the War. He first arrived in Iraq in July 2006.
“I stayed there for a year, in Abu Ghraib and outside Fallujah. When we arrived, we were told we were here to bring stabilisation to the country,” said Aliff.
“But we were not rebuilding anything. The Iraqis had only two hours of electricity. And I saw the atrocities committed by the Americans there.”
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AT LEAST 160 ARRESTED AT IRAQ PROTEST
15 Sep 2007 | MATTHEW BARAKAT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where at least 160 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."
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