【沪江标准VOA】1月27日：华盛顿反战游行(1)
Peace Activists to March on Washington Saturday(1/2)
The anti-war group United for Peace and Justice is organizing Saturday's march on the National Mall. Veteran activist Jane Fonda and Hollywood actors Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover are slated to speak, as well as an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy and a retired Army colonel and U.S. diplomat. Organizers say they expect thousands of demonstrators from all over the nation.
This is the first peace march in Washington since Mr. Bush made the call earlier this month for an additional 21,000 troops to be sent to Iraq, in a new push to end sectarian violence there. Tuesday in his State of the Union address, he defended his plan, saying the new troops are necessary to win the war.
"This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we're in. Every one of us wishes this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk."
