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Pentagon (AP) - A low-key anti-war demonstration moved Monday within a few hundred yards of the Pentagon, as marchers called for an end to the Iraq war. A muffled drum and a ceremonial peace bell sounded along a route followed by about 200 protesters from the Lincoln Memorial to Defense Department (website) headquarters, across the Potomac River in Arlington, Va. "No Iraqi is our enemy," said Steve Cleghorn, 56, of Reynoldsville, Pa. He took part in the march on behalf of the group Military Families Speak Out. Organizers worked with U.S. Park Police to select a route that allowed permitted...

GARDNER, MA — Brian Hawkins kept coming up with new words to describe his feelings about the war in Iraq. “Embarrassed that we torture people. Embarrassed that we detain people without due process,” said Mr. Hawkins, an information technology consultant who lives in Fitchburg. Later, he added “ashamed” to the list. The United States’ duty to democracy is to protect it here, he said. “That’s how we spread freedom and democracy, by being a model country,” Mr. Hawkins said. He was among a small group of people with a great deal to say about the war as they held a...