WASHINGTON, September 16, SPA -- Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190protesters were arrested. The group marched from the White House to the Capitol onSaturday to demand an end to the Iraq war. Their numbersstretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and theyheld banners and signs and chanted, «What do we want?Troops out. When do we want it? Now.» Army veteran Justin Cliburn, 25, was among a contingent ofIraq veterans in attendance. «We're occupying a people who do not want us there,»Cliburn said of Iraq. «We're here to show that it isn'tjust a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are againstthis war.» Counter protesters lined the sidewalks behind metalbarricades. There were some heated shouting matches betweenthe two sides, the Associated Press reported. The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitollawn in what they called a «die in» _ with signs on topof their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. Whenpolice took no action, some of the protesters startedclimbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps. Many were arrested without a struggle after they jumpedover the waist-high barrier. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/483087