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Protesters took to the streets of downtown Washington to oppose the continued U.S. involvement in Iraq, five years after the war began.

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  • "We've done the marches," Frida Berrigan, 33, of the War Resisters League of New York City told The Washington Times. "But for the fifth anniversary we needed to something different."

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  • Miss Berrigan, 33, also said organizers did not want to hold the protest over a weekend, which typically brings bus loads of out-of-state marchers, because this weekend includes Easter Sunday and there was a gathering last weekend in Silver Spring of veterans against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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