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"I THINK what’s happening in Iraq is terrible. I don’t think any of the young ones should be there."

"I know it’s trendy, but I registered as an independent. I think I’m going for Ralph Nader." Colby Buzzell US soldier stationed in Iraq on his voting intentions in the US elections

"There is no chance for Bush’s war agenda to be clearly rejected on election day, because John Kerry is promising to continue, and even strengthen, the military occupation of Iraq.

THE THREE-week standoff between occupation forces and resistance fighters in the Iraqi city of Najaf has been a major news story.

THE CASUALTY rates for US and other troops occupying Iraq have rocketed upwards this month.

THE POLITICAL war over Iraq goes on, alongside the shooting war. Two polls published last week illustrated this struggle.

Protest will erupt in New York this week on a scale not seen since the great demonstrations on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

THE FAMILY of Gordon Gentle, a 19 year old British soldier from Pollok in Glasgow who was killed in Iraq on 28 June, launched a campaign last week demanding that all British troops leave Iraq.

GORDON WAS a beautiful young man of 19 years of age.

Tony Blair’ß decision to invite Iraq’s stooge prime minister, Iyad Allawi, to the Labour Party conference is a calculated insult.

‘I think anger is a good word to describe how we feel. He’d gone there thinking it was not a war zone.

"We have tens of millions of dollars in projects in Samarra, but you won’t get a dime as long as the city is not working hands to hands with the coalition."US Major General John Batiste lays down the law to Hamid Humud Shakti, governor of the Iraqi province of Samarra