It was supposed to be the world's largest floating peace demonstration and a gesture aimed at getting Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates to publicly float his own position on the prospect of a U.S.-led war against Iraq. A dozen kayaks, three sailboats and a canoe pasted with signs such as "No Iraq War" and "Launch Software, Not Warfare" paddled or sailed from Madison Park south of the Evergreen Point Bridge over to the Gates family home in Medina on the eastern shore of Lake Washington yesterday afternoon.
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