Antiwar activists held banners last week and set up paper lanterns in front of the White House with photographs and names of some of the US service members killed in Iraq.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Activists demand an end to war funds
Push shows split among Democrats
Antiwar activists held banners last week and set up paper lanterns in front of the White House with photographs and names of some of the US service members killed in Iraq.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON -- With President Bush poised to announce a surge in US troops in Iraq this week, antiwar activists in the Democratic Party are stepping up demands that their party's leaders cut off funding for the war -- a dramatic step that would force the president to quickly end American involvement in the war. (Full article: 961 words)
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