Thousands of people protested in Washington against the American war machine.

Thousands of people protested in Washington against the American war machine.

 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Washington and asked the US government to stop militarizing and using sanctions against other countries.

Thousands of protesters came to the streets of “Washington” on Sunday and asked the United States to stop militarizing and using sanctions against other countries.

According to “Morning Star” newspaper, this demonstration took place on the 20th anniversary of the US attack on Iraq. In 2003, 11 million people demonstrated across the United States against a war that, according to some estimates, killed more than three million Iraqis. America and its allies claimed that Iraq used weapons of mass destruction to justify the war, but this claim was later rejected.

According to the Morning Star, the demonstrators demanded an end to the huge US spending on the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, an end to militarization and sanctions against countries such as Syria, and an end to massive US aid to the apartheid regime of Israel. Demonstrators also denounced a new cold war with China.

Organizers of the rally said the purpose of the rally was to warn of the threat of “world war” and the impact that continued US militarism would have at home and around the world.

One of the demonstrators said: “We honor the memory of the people who lost their lives in America’s wars from Afghanistan to Iraq, Somalia, Palestine and Yemen, and we ask the American authorities to stop funding the endless wars.”