Oliver Stone directs US anti-war group ad

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SANTA MONICA, United States (AFP) — The famed US film director Oliver Stone on Thursday unveiled an advertisement which he directed for a left-wing US group demanding the pullout of US troops from Iraq.

The 30-second ad, sponsored by the MoveOn.org political action group, features a soldier who fought in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 and now wants Congress and US President George W. Bush to bring the troops home.

Bush "tried to legalize the war, saying that it was Operation Iraqi Freedom. But I didn't feel that way. The people that were attacking the troops were Iraqi people feeling that we were occupying them," says soldier John Bruhns.

"I'm no pacifist. I supported the war in Afghanistan. I consider myself as a patriot," he adds.

The advertisement is to...