The Iraq War began it's seventh year Saturday, and some are frustrated with the progress (or lack of) overseas.
Those people against the war chose the anniversary to voice their opposition. Protesters who marched from Hillcrest to Balboa were joined by a familiar face. Cindy Sheehan was the keynote speaker at the rally.
Sheehan became a face for the opposition to the war after her son was killed and she camped out near President Bush's Texas Ranch in 2007, demanding to speak with him.
Today, she said she wants to ask the new president why the U.S. is still in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I think we're trying to say, too, that it doesn't matter who is president. It was wrong under George Bush, and it's wrong under Barack Obama," said Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
Protests were held in cities across the country. In San Francisco, tension grew after five dozen activists surrounded riot-equipped police, throwing sticks and bottles. In Washington D.C., protesters carried cardboard coffins in a march that started in the nation's capitol and ended at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
The U.S. plans to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
