Iraq war protesters try to deliver 'coffin' to Rumsfeld

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Iraq war protesters try to deliver 'coffin' to Rumsfeld

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Marchers protesting the Iraq war tried to deliver a mock coffin to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday, but police kept them off Pentagon grounds during a largely peaceful demonstration marking the war's third anniversary.

A muffled drum and a ceremonial peace bell sounded along a route followed by about 200 protesters from the Lincoln Memorial to Defense Department headquarters across the Potomac River in Arlington, Va.

"No Iraqi is our enemy," said Steve Cleghorn, 56, of Reynoldsville, Pa., of the group Military Families Speak Out.

Organizers worked with U.S. Park Police to select the demonstration route along a channel park just east of the Pentagon, where police set up a five-foot-high steel barrier on the edge of a parking lot east of the Pentagon grounds.