US Police Crack Down on Iraq Rallies


	US Police Crack Down on Iraq Rallies

papananook

3-20-2008 5:58 PM

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papananook says:

It should be 200,000 or 2 million---Where the hell are the people who claim to be against the war? Oh, yeah...too busy to notice there is still a war on. Shame on you who sit by and do nothing. I was out there and I'm half crippled with arthritis and a back that is in constant pain.

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