http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040315/ts_alt_afp/us_iraq_demo&cid=1506&ncid=1480 Dead soldiers' families join anti-war protest at White House
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 200 protestors, including families of soldiers killed in Iraq (news - web sites), gathered in front of the White House to demand an end to the US occupation of Iraq.
Drums rolled after each demonstrator took a turn reading into a microphone the names of soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed in the conflict. Then, the readers laid the list of names in a black-and-white coffin.
The protestors quoted Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, the chief rationale for the US invasion.
"Honor the dead and end the war," the protestors chanted as they approached a police cordon in front of the White House.
Deaths on the weekend in Iraq raised to 274 the number of US soldiers killed in action since Bush declared major hostilities over on May 1.