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RYE, N.H. - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) opened a two-day offensive against Republican Sens. John Sununu (news, bio, voting record) and Judd Gregg (news, bio, voting record), telling New Hampshire voters on Friday their senators should do more to end the war. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, told a town hall audience in Rye that Sununu, Gregg and 14 other Republican senators are the main roadblocks to ending the unpopular war in Iraq. Obama backs a plan that would give the Democratic-controlled Congress more control over the war's finances and begin a troop redeployment before President Bush...

Forty-five percent of Americans say war worth it; 52% disagreePRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll shows support for the war with Iraq has stabilized at a lower level, little different from that found two weeks ago at the height of publicity surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. This is in spite of the fact that Americans' assessment of how the situation in Iraq is going for the United States has become slightly more positive. With the United States set to turn over governing authority in Iraq on June 30, Americans remain skeptical that peace and security will be...

War Support Songs Invade Airwaves Antiwar Songs Played Less SAN DIEGO -- Radio listeners may be hearing more songs in support of the war, than opposition, 10News reported. "I like Iraq's chances of winning the war than hearing an antipatriotic song or un-American song on a country station," country radio station KSON 97.3 program director John Dibeck said. Dibeck was recently forced to deal with the issue head on when the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, said to a London audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." All...