From Deseret News archives:
Salt Lake mayor a part of D.C. march
Anderson, also a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and of President Bush, spoke at a rally following the march and echoed the rally's main mantra, calling for the impeachment of the president and of Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Impeach these men who betrayed and harmed us all," Anderson said. "We are here to say, 'No more!"'
Anderson made almost identical remarks during a similar rally held in front of the U.S. Capitol in January, leading the crowd in a chant of "No More!" as he listed various acts he and the crowd of thousands would like to see stopped.
"No more movement toward war in Iran. ... No more wars of aggression. ... No more violations of the United Nation's charter," Anderson said during Saturday's speech.
"We are not the kind of nation that tolerates the violation of treaties, wars of aggression and human rights abuses perpetrated by our vice president and our president," he said. "We have always been proud to distinguish ourselves from governments that ignore the rules of law, which violated treaties and their own constitutions with impunity. Now, under the Bush administration, we are becoming like them."
The protest initiated by the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, better known as the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and sponsored by 1,500 organizations marked the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion and the 40th anniversary of an October 1967 March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War.
Other protests took place in cities across the nation. In Salt Lake City, a protest dubbed "The Liars Convention" was held on the sidewalk in front of the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building. Like their counterparts in Washington, the Utah protesters took aim at the Bush administration, the military and the corporate media.
The Washington event was the first time Anderson and Sheehan had actually crossed paths. He invited her to participate in a rally last August, when Bush came to Salt Lake City to speak at the American Legion convention, but she was recovering from surgery.
Sheehan's son, Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in April 2004, and she has since been protesting the war "to show that no citizen in this country is above the law," she said in an interview.
Sheehan said she knows Anderson is harshly criticized by some residents of Salt Lake City and Utah for his participation in such events.
"I think he is very courageous to stand up for his values and his beliefs," Sheehan said.
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