] By the tens of thousands, demonstrators marched, chanted
] -- "No More Years!" -- and danced through the streets of
] Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their anger with President
] Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republicans' decision to
] hold a national convention in this most Democratic of
] urban bastions.
]
] Hundreds of police officers in riot gear lined the
] sidewalks, SWAT vans idled, and police helicopters
] whirred overhead. But the protest was as peaceful as it
] was vast. More than 200,000 demonstrators, according to a
] police estimate, packed dozens of blocks along Seventh
] Avenue and snaked down side streets.

200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush (washingtonpost.com)