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Photos by Tarek Atia Filed from London, UK on 17 February 2002
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may have been furious at the peace marchers, as this ad for the Evening Standard newspaper made clear, but the marchers were even more furious at him for leading their country to war despite all the opposition to it.
The sign below, on the right above the phone booth, was a telling metaphoric symbol of just how ugly a war for oil really is.
US President George Bush also bore much of the brunt of the people's anger, as the cynical sign below reveals.
The dreamy meaning of this sign did not take away from the pragmatism of the anti-war movement's goals.
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