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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (613784)	8/30/2004 10:00:05 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Disappointing Turnout for Anti-Bush March Organizers had hoped that a New York City protest march on Sunday against President Bush and the war in Iraq would attract up to a million participants. But according to official NYPD estimates, the march - staged by the radical umbrella group United for Peace and Justice and timed to coincide with the beginning of the GOP Convention - drew a relatively paltry 100,000 protesters. Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 11:52 p.m. EDT Disappointing Turnout for Anti-Bush March Organizers had hoped that a New York City protest march on Sunday against President Bush and the war in Iraq would attract up to a million participants. But according to official NYPD estimates, the march - staged by the radical umbrella group United for Peace and Justice and timed to coincide with the beginning of the GOP Convention - drew a relatively paltry 100,000 protesters. Story Continues Below The group had obtained a city permit to march that stipulated 250,000 participants - two and a half times the number of those who actually showed up. And the NYPD was girding for a possible 400,000 marchers, with dozens of mounted police units at the ready and police vans standing by for hundreds of arrests. newsmax.com