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Protesters in several US cities held anti-war rallies Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, March 20th. More rallies are planned in coming days in other U.S. cities. Several thousand joined an anti-war protest in Los Angeles.

今年3月20号是美国攻打伊拉克五周年，美国几座城市的抗议者星期六举行反战集会。未来几天美国其它城市也计划举行类似抗议集会。有几千人参加了洛杉矶的反战示威。

Marchers chanted and some carried flag-draped coffins¹ as speakers demanded that U.S. troops come home.

集会者高呼口号，有些人还抬着用国旗覆盖的棺木，集会发言人要求美国军队撤离伊拉克回国。集会者高呼，“停止战争......”

Sharaf Mowjood of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the continued presence of American troops is worsening conditions in Iraq, and diverting attention from domestic U.S. problems, including rebuilding New Orleans. The city was devastated² by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

美国-伊斯兰关系协会的谢拉夫.莫吉奥德表示，美国军队继续驻扎伊拉克，正在恶化那里的局势，并且会转移人们对重建新奥尔良等美国国内问题的注意力。新奥尔良市在2005年的卡特里娜飓风中受到严重破坏。

"We need to pull out immediately. That's the main thing right now we need to do. It's a conundrum³ as it is," he said. "So it's in a situation where the best viable⁴ option is to pull out because you have a lot of these internal problems you have to deal with, health care, sub-prime mortgage crisis, Katrina, all that. We need to work on those issues first."

谢拉夫.莫吉奥德说：“我们需要立即从伊拉克撤军。这是目前我们需要做的首要事情。这本来就是一道难题。因此，目前情况下最佳可行选择就是撤军，理由是，国内现在有大量问题急待解决，比如医疗保健，次级房屋抵押贷款危机，卡特里娜飓风后的重建等等。我们需要首先解决这些问题。”

Members of religious, labor⁵ and community groups joined the Los Angeles demonstration⁷. Madelyn MacKay, a Quaker, says the protests are sending a message to the candidates in the November 4 presidential election.

宗教组织、劳工组织以及一些社团的成员加入了洛杉矶反战示威。贵格会教徒马德琳.麦凯说，抗议示威活动是向参加11月4号总统选举的候选人传递一个信息。

"And I think this sort of unity⁶ among groups for this one cause in the country is a big message to all of the candidates running that there is a lot of support through all kinds of organizations and all kinds of communities, people that do want us to get out of the war quickly," she said.

马德琳.麦凯说：“我认为，在这个国家，各个组织和团体因为这样一个原因而如此心齐，是向所有总统参选人传递一条重要信息，那就是希望我们国家尽快结束伊拉克战争，这得到各个组织和各个社团以及全体民众的大力支持。”

Protests were also scheduled Saturday for Albuquerque, Austin, and other U.S. cities.

阿尔伯克基、奥斯汀等美国其它城市星期六也曾计划要举行抗议示威。

More anti-war events are scheduled in San Francisco, Chicago and Washington D.C. on March 19, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

此外，旧金山、芝加哥和华盛顿哥伦比亚特区定于3月19号，也就是美国领导的攻打伊拉克行动的前一天，举行反战活动。