(SIOUX CITY, IA) This week is the 6th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Members of the Siouxland Peace Coalition and ANSWER Coalition from Sioux Falls demonstrated in downtown Sioux City Friday. About a dozen people held signs and waved to cars driving by, promoting their message of peace and their call to bring troops home immediately.

"We just really want to be a positive presence for peace and we hope and pray for peace in our homes, in our community, in our country and in our world," says Gerald Iversen with Siouxland Peace Coalition.

"The war is still going on so it wasn't just Bush's war, it's the American war so we're still going to demonstrate against Obama," says Chris Huska with ANSWER Coalition.

The ANSWER coalition will hold its own demonstration in Sioux Falls Saturday. On Thursday, the Siouxland Peace Coalition will hold a panel at Briar Cliff University to talk about the ongoing conflict in Gaza.