DENVER -- "This is not street theater! This is real!" shouted a man wearing a baseball cap into a microphone as approximately 20 soldiers of the United States army -- decked out in camouflaged uniforms and sporting expressions as tense as if they were invading Fallujah [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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