Kucinich rallies in Los Angeles

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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/272/nation/Demonstrators_along_both_coast:.shtml

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Anti-war protesters on both coasts took to the streets to denounce President Bush and demand a pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq. Rallies were held Sunday in Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco, and followed international protests Saturday in London, Athens, Paris and other cities.

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At a rally following the march in Los Angeles, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said that U.S. troops should be pulled out of Iraq and replaced by international forces. ''We need to get the U.N. in and the U.S. out,'' Kucinich said. ''There can be a way to extricate this nation from the quicksand of Iraq.''

Disabled Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, author of ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' addressed the rally, saying ''the same government that paralyzed me and put me in this wheelchair'' was killing American and Iraqi boys. Fernando Suarez del Solar, of Escondido, whose 20-year-old son died in March while fighting in Iraq, led the crowd in chants of ''Bring them home now!'' ''My son was a peace lover. He was a soldier for peace, not for oil,'' said Suarez, holding a picture of his son in his Marine uniform.

Code Pink, a women's pro-peace group, unveiled a 40-foot-long ''pink slip'' during the rally that read, ''Rumsfeld, you're dishonorably discharged'' a reference to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.