More mayors like this, please:

�� In downtown Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park, between 1,000 and 2,000 anti-war protesters gathered to speak and demonstrate against the continuing fighting in Iraq.

��� Organizers were thrilled at the turnout and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called on Utahns to make the protest a turning point in national opposition to Bush policies in Iraq and on environmental issues.

��� “Our nation was lied into a war,” said Anderson, who was booed by VFW members earlier in the day but cheered by Bush protesters in Pioneer Park.

��� Protest organizer Eileen McCabe-Olsen, said: “A fire has been lit.”

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