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House in Washington, capital of US, on Nov.2, 2005. (Xinhua
photo) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (Xinhuanet) --
Thousands of people across the United States on Wednesday staged protests
against President Goerge W. Bush's policies.
They used the anniversary of Bush's re-election to
express their discontent with his policies including the war in Iraq and
response to Hurricane Katrina and call for his resignation.
More than 800 Los Angeles high school students walked
out of their campuses as part of a nationwide protest against Bush.
Adults accompanied groups of students "in all cases"
as they left 10 high schools across the sprawling city, according to Dan Isaacs,
chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
¡¡ ¡¡"Our issue ... was safety, and I think we fulfilled our mission,frankly,"
Isaacs said.
However, Edith Lagos, of the New York-based World
Can't Wait, an organization formed recently to stage the rallies, claimed that
police prevented students at two high schools from joining the event.
The group asked adults and children to walk out of
office and class Wednesday and gather along Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los
Angeles.
Meanwhile, several hundred protestors gathered
Wednesday in downtown Seattle to protest the Iraq war and the Bush
administration's stance on everything from Supreme Court nomination to
reproductive rights, a report said. High school and college students walked out
of class to join the rally.
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(Xinhua
photo) | Organizers said a candlelight rally
and march planned for Wednesday night at Seattle Central Community College would
go on despite the lack of a city permit.
Hundreds of high school students in New York City on
Wednesday staged a walkout in Union Square, midtown Manhattan, as part of a
national day of resistance against the policy of the Bush administration.
Some students, though not even old enough to vote,
started walking out of class late Wednesday morning to protest against Bush.
Many students said they were very much concerned
about the war in Iraq.
"I'm here because my country is more important than
my report card," said one student who came all the way to join his fellow
students in a show of support to the event organizers.
Many students said there is not much about the Bush
administration that they approve of, with the war in Iraq being the most
upsetting.
Some younger students said that since they cannot
exercise their right to vote yet, they came here to exercise their voices.
"I'm underage so I can't vote, and this is how I see
fit to getmy voice out there and my opinion out there," said an underage
student.
Protests were also held in other major US cities. In
Chicago, some 500 people attended a downtown rally as a few protesters waved
Iraqi flags and vandalized American flags.
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| Demonstrators protestin New York.
(Xinhua/Reuters) | Wednesday was another violent
day in Iraq.
The US military said on Wednesday that four US
soldiers have been killed in the restive western Iraqi town of Ramadi since
Tuesday.
Two US crew members were killed when a US helicopter
crashed on Wednesday outside the western Iraqi city of Ramadi. The other two
service members were also killed in Ramadi the day before by a roadside bomb,
according to the military.
US forces launched an air strike near the crash site
and a local doctor said there were dozens of casualties.
Also on Wednesday, a car bomb outside a mosque in the
southern Iraqi town of Musayyib, a mainly Shiite town, killed at least 20 people
and wounded more than 60 others.
The bomb attack occurred on the eve of the beginning
of a Muslim festival to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
Earlier, several roadside bombs and shootings killed
at least a dozen people, mostly in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government issued a recruitment call on
Wednesday to former junior officers in Saddam Hussein's military to return to
service two years after they were fired by the US occupiers.
The US decision to disband Saddam's 400,000-member
army soon after he was ousted had been widely seen as a major reason for the
increase of violence, which is fuelled by Sunni ex-soldiers. Enditem
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