(PROTEST) Today in the nation's capital and in cities across the country, people will gather to register their opposition to the Iraq war. This war, as everyone now knows, was launched on a false premise. It has since cost the lives of nearly 2,000 American soldiers, injured more than 14,000 others, and damaged the reputation of the United States abroad. Will this anti-Iraq-war protest be any more successful than all the others? Only if a lot of people show up. (Westlake Plaza, Fourth Ave and Pine St, noon, free.) ELI SANDERS