New York (AP)  -- Joining their counterparts around the country and the world, demonstrators rallied in Times Square on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, demanding that troops be pulled out.

"We say enough hypocrisy, enough lies, our soldiers must come home now," said Waleed Bader of the Arab Muslim American Federation. He addressed the crowd, gathered near a military recruiting station guarded by police vehicles and mounted officers, from the flatbed of a truck draped with anti-war messages.

The anti-war scene was being repeated around the United States. In Concord, N.H, nearly 300 peace activists marched about a mile from the New Hampshire National Guard Armory to the Statehouse in protest.

"I feel a huge sense of betrayal that I went and risked my life for a lie," said Joseph Turcott, 26, a former Marine who served in the initial invasion.

At Dudley Square in Boston, a few hundred college-aged activists and baby boomers waved placards that read "Impeach Bush" and "Stop the War."  Speakers used the bed of a white pickup truck as a dais, evoking peace chants from the crowd and decrying the president.

"It seems like we are fighting a King George in the same way General Washington fought a King George, who was equally imperialistic," said Askia Toure, a local poet and activist.

Susan McLucas, a self-described peace activist and international volunteer, wore a homemade sandwich board that read: "Bush Lied! 100,000 died!"   "It's a war based on lies," said McLucas, 57. "We are gaining strength. The war is becoming more and more unpopular."

Protests were also held in Australia, Asia, and Europe, but the events were far smaller than the mass rallies in the build-up to the invasion.