In Turkey, he claimed the US had no desire to act as overlords in the Middle East, telling university students in Istanbul that the occupation of Iraq did not contradict his anti-war stance.

在土耳其，他指出美国没有愿望在中东去扮演一个霸主，他告诉伊斯坦布尔的大学生：伊拉克的占领并没有和他反战的立场冲突。

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Most recently he had campaigned against the occupation of Iraq, being awarded the Wilfred Owen award for poetry in 2004, for a collection of work criticising the war.

最近他还曾反对伊拉克战争，他的一本批评伊拉克战争的诗集还在2004年获得威尔弗雷德·欧文奖。

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In the spring of 2003, it was estimated that 30% of Afghanistan "s 7,000 schools had been seriously damaged during more than two decades of Soviet occupation and civil war."

根据2003年春的统计，苏联占领及内战的二十年里，阿富汗7000所学校中有30%遭到严重破坏。

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"There are going to be a lot of young people in the government; they don't remember the war, they don't remember the occupation, they don't necessarily believe Japan needs to have a special relationship with the United States."

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