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Show Btfoy, SeptLJOOelS. Utah Statesman Wednesday is day of rallies for Salt Lake City Pizza Hut one day and worry about being blown up like they do in Israel," she said. Several blocks away at Salt Lake City's Liberty Park, a "Freedom Rally" was held. There, the crowd numbering in the hundreds, many of them Legionnaires, were rallying in support of U.S. troops. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff spoke to those gathered, saying he felt he had to speak out against what Anderson was doing blocks away at the anti-war protest. Shurtleff said it was disrespectful for Anderson to be speaking out against the war on the same day a Marine from Salt Lake was being buried. A funeral was Wednesday for Cpl. Adam A. Galvez, 21, who was killed in Iraq on Aug. 20. "Your right to raise your fist in protest stops at the mahogany casket (of Galvez)," Shurtleff said. "Rocky, your protests in search of national recognition will leave you destitute and hungry." John Neylon of Twin " Mountain, N.H., was one of the Legionnaires who came to the rally in buses from the Salt Palace where their convention is being held. Neylon, who served in the Navy, said he came to the rally to support his daughter, Debra, who will be leaving for a tour of duty in Iraq next month with the Rhode Island Army National Guard. "It's just another way to support her," he said. Ronald Cowley, an American Legion commander and Mike Harris, a vice commander, also addressed the rally, both keeping with the overall theme that now — while the country is at war — is not the time to criticize U.S. policy for fear of undermining the troops. Wednesday's day of protest included a total of six permitted rallies in the city. Most gatherings were designed to express support for American troops or opposition the Iraq war. Legion classes with Rocky during event APHotot A PROTESTER IN DOWNTOWN SLC hopes to get her point over before speech by Donald Rumsfeld in to the American Legion convention. BY BROCK VERGAKIS AND DEBBIE HUMMEL Associated Press Writers SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators gathered at City Hall on Wednesday in protest of President Bush's policies — one day before he speaks to the American Legion's national convention here. Led by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, protesters-marched from City Hall to the federal building to present a symbolic indictment against Bush, Congress and the president's administration, alleging such "crimes" as failure to uphold the Constitution, abuse of power and failure to promote the general welfare of Americans. "Our children and later generations will pay the price of the lies, the violence, the cruelty, the incompetence and the inhumanity of the Bush administration and the lackey Congress that has so cowardly abrogated its responsibility and authority under our checks-and-balances system of government," Anderson said. The protests came a day after two senior members of the Republican administration, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, addressed Legionnaires here with Rumsfeld likening critics of the U.S. war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis. Rumsfeld and Rice both emphasized that America is safer because it is fighting terrorists in Iraq rather than at home as the nation approaches the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Most of Anderson's 35minute speech focused on criticizing the Bush administration for its initial invasion of Iraq and did not address what the administration's current policy should be, only insisting that Bush begin telling the truth. The crowd frequently chanted "Rocky" as it held posters that said among other things: "Iraq: Another Vietnam", "Stop Israeli Terrorism" and "We protest because we're patriotic." Anderson and protest organizers had come under fire from Republicans for protesting during Bush's visit, with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, apologizing to the Legion for the protests. The state Republican Party also ran radio advertisements encouraging Utah residents to leave messages with the mayor expressing their displeasure. The mayor's office had to hire three temporary workers to handle the phone calls. "A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, warmongering, human-rights violating president," Anderson. Many protesters also called Bush racist and advocated that the country abandon capitalism in favor of socialism. But the focus was on the war in Iraq. Carl Brown, 60, held a sign saying "Army veterans against the war." "People who oppose the war and are demonstrating shouldn't be looked down on as weirdos and wackos and unpatriotic," Brown said. The certified public accountant said he thinks troops should gradually come home over the next six months to a year. As throngs of protesters marched down State Street, the main thoroughfare through the Salt Lake valley, many cars honked their horns in support and crowds gathered on sidewalks to cheer the protesters on. But Kim Watson of West Jordan followed protesters with a bull horn saying Anderson is a liar and that America is doing the right thing in Iraq. "It's about protecting our way of life for future generations so my kid doesn't have to worry about going into a policies Tuesday, and the president will fine, but respect the office. This is a very Mayor Rocky Anderson, a Democrat give a speech on Thursday. conservative state, sweet and friendly. in a city that is considered liberal by Rumsfeld said the world faces "a new That's not sweet." heavily Republican Utah's standards, has type of fascism" and likened critics of the Salt Lake County Mayor Peter accused the Bush administration of lying Bush administration's war strategy to about the rationale for war. He has called Corroon, who is also a Democrat but those who tried to appease the Nazis in has said little about the war, was mildly President Bush a "complete disaster." the 1930s. booed Tuesday when he gave the welAnd on Wednesday, he organized a "Can we truly afford to believe that coming speech, apparently because some big protest rally a few blocksfromthe somehow, some way, vicious extremists Salt Palace Convention Center, just hours Legionnaires thought he was Anderson. can be appeased?" he asked. Anderson seems to savor the controbefore Bush's arrival here for an address The Legion went on record in 2005 versy, even inviting peace activist Cindy to the American Legion. as saying it "fully supports" Bush in the Sheehan to Salt Lake City for the protest. "No more God-is-on-our-side religious "global war on terrorism." The Veterans She dropped out, citing health reasons. nonsense," Anderson said at the rally, When some Legionnaires said conven- of Foreign Wars, which is meeting in absorbing waves of cheers and applause Reno, Nev., this week, has a similar tion attendance would drop because of from the thousands of protesters as he stance. Together they have 5 million the mayor, Anderson said it was "very called Bush a "dishonest, war-mongerstrange" that free speech would discour- members. ing, human-rights violating president." The Legion has no anti-war speakThe American Legion was so offended age people. ers at its convention and no nationally At least 12,000 veterans are at the by Anderson's protest plans that it prominent Democrats. Rep. Lane Evans, convention. refused to extend the customary invitaan Illinois Democrat who voted against Inside the Salt Palace this week, tion to the host city's mayor to deliver the the war in 2002 but is known for his the stage has been dominated by the welcoming address. work on behalf of veterans, was supposed Bush administration's most senior "Rocky ought to sit behind his desk to appear Wednesday but canceled, citing and powerful members. Speaking to a and leave the rest of the world alone. I health reasons. wouldn't dream of doing things like this," friendly audience, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State "We're not going to invite Cindy said Legionnaire Lynn Beckstead, 71, of Condoleezza Rice defended their war Sheehan or Rocky Anderson to speak." West Valley City. "If you don't like Bush, TREK LYONS, M . D . 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