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PROTESTORS AT BUSH'S SECOND INAUGURATION, 2005




Security officers stand in front of demonstrators against US President George W. Bush


President George W Bush along the Inaugural Parade route in Washington, DC. Though the demonstrations were peaceful -- mainly booing of Bush's motorcade and marches and rallies -- about 50 anarchists tried in one incident to push past security checkpoints and advance toward the parade route, but were pushed back by police(AFP/Leslie E. Kossoff


Demonstrators with posters watch security officers after US President George W. Bush


President George W. Bush took the oath of office for a second four-year term in Washington, DC. Though the demonstrations were peaceful -- mainly booing of Bush's motorcade and marches and rallies -- about 50 anarchists tried in one incident to push past security checkpoints and advance toward the parade route, but were pushed back by police(AFP/Leslie E. Kossoff)


Protestors jeered and railed at Bush as his limousine rolled past, whisking him to another four years in the White House(AFP/Hector Mata)


Thousands of protesters turned out for demonstrations and marches throughout the capital to voice their dissent.(AFP/Hector Mata)


Anti-War Network (DAWN) demonstrators carry mock coffins draped with the US flag as they arrive in downtown Washington, DC for the inauguration of US President George W. Bush


Protesters, some locked to a gas pump, sit at gas station while protesting President Bush's second inauguration, following a march in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. Police said that from 11 to 15 people were arrested during protests on Thursday, most of them at the gas station. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)


A protester burns an American Flag to protest President Bush's second inauguration during a march in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)


Carie Lunsford, right, shouts anti-war slogans during a protest denouncing President Bush's inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


Sarah Clark, middle, holds a sign with a mask of president George W. Bush during a protest denouncing Bush's inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


Demonstrators gather for a protest denouncing President George W. Bush's inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


Rusty Oliver, of Seattle, places a rope around the statue he built that is mean to reprsent President Bush holding a gasoline nozzle and standing on a barrel of oil during a protest against the inauguration of President Bush and the war in Iraq Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo Ted S. Warren)


Activist Jess Ghannam, middle, rallies the crowd during a protest denouncing President George W. Bush inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


A band portraying President Bush as a marionette controlled by Satan performs at a protest against the inauguration of President Bush and the war in Iraq Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo Ted S. Warren)


Demonstrators rally as the parade for the inauguration of US President George W. Bush passes by on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, DC.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)


Protestors shout as the presidential limousine passes by during the inaugural parade of President Bush in Washington, January 20, 2005. As the president's motorcade made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House amid the tightest security in inaugural history, thousands of protesters along the parade route and nearby downtown streets booed, chanted slogans and carried placards condemning Bush's policies at home and abroad. Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters


A protester dressed as President George W. Bush carries an inflatable globe as another dressed like Vice President Dick Cheney pulls strings like a marionette puppet on the streets of Washington, January 20, 2005 on the day of the presidential inauguration. Thousands of protesters and supporters of Bush gathered in the nation's capital to witness the second inauguration of Bush. (Jason Reed/Reuters)


A demonstrator stands beside coffins draped with American flags as part of a protest to memorialize American soldiers who have died in the war with Iraq at Washington's Malcolm X Park, January 20, 2005. Flag-draped coffins and anti-war chants competed with pomp and circumstance on Thursday at the inauguration of President Bush along the snow-dusted, barricaded streets of central Washington. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)


Protesters gather for a rally protesting President Bush)'s second inauguration Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)


Hundreds gather to protest President Bush's second inauguration Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)