Atlantans Mark the Sixth Year of the Iraq War

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About 100 people marched from Woodruff Park to the CNN building led by Iraq war veterans to mark the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war which began on March 19, 2003. Several of the marchers laid in the street at the intersection of Marietta and Centennial Olympic Park Drive in a "die in." The demonstration ended with the throwing of shoes at a Bush effigy while the crowd chanted "this is for the widows and orphans of those killed in Iraq." The same words of...
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About 100 people marched from Woodruff Park to the CNN building led by Iraq war veterans to mark the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war which began on March 19, 2003. Several of the marchers laid in the street at the intersection of Marietta and Centennial Olympic Park Drive in a "die in." The demonstration ended with the throwing of shoes at a Bush effigy while the crowd chanted "this is for the widows and orphans of those killed in Iraq." The same words of those uttered by the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush during the ex-president's last visit to Iraq.
Since it began on March 19, 2003 the war has cost the United States more than $600 billion dollars, with an estimated $440 to $865 billion expected to be spent in the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. President Barack Obama calls for 127,000 troops to remain in Iraq until the end of this year, and for 50,000 troops to remain at least until the end of 2011. More than 4,250 American troops have died since the start of the war, and another 36,000 were wounded. For Iraqis, the toll has been much higher, with an estimate of more than 91,000 Iraqi civilians killed. What's more, water in Baghdad is still mostly undrinkable.
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