Huge Anti-Bush March Greets Republican Conventioneers!

NEW YORK (CP) - A massive antiwar march through midtown Manhattan in sizzling heat Sunday became a walking, chanting, musical catch-all of grievances against President George W. Bush on the eve of the Republican national convention. The roar of tens of thousands of protesters could be heard from blocks away as they snaked past Madison Square Garden, under the shadow of the Empire State Building and down the shopping haven of Fifth Avenue. Dozens of flag-draped mock coffins and signs demanding the immediate return of U.S. troops from Iraq provided a graphic illustration of just how much the 17-month Iraq conflict has divided Americans. It took years to build this kind of antipathy toward the Vietnam War. Second World War veterans in wheelchairs and babies in strollers wheeled alongside teenagers and activists... http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=news_home&articleID=1699680