Protesters worldwide want U.S. out of Iraq

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Protesters filled more than a dozen police-lined blocks in Manhattan, calling on President Bush to bring home U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000.

"It is time to bring our children home and declare this war was unnecessary," the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a New York activist, told a rally in Manhattan.

The roughly 250 protests scheduled around the country by United for Peace and Justice ranged from solemn to brash.

In Montpelier, Vt., hundreds of silent protesters placed a pair of shoes on the Statehouse steps for each of the more than 560 U.S. soldiers killed in the war. In Los Angeles, one of thousands of protesters held photographs of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with the words "Forget Janet Jackson's -- expose the real boobs."

I keep trying to forget Janet Jackson's " -- " but I just can't seem to shake the image...

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