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The first thing I saw when I walked through the labyrinth of security checkpoints at the annual Labour Party Conference here was a young man in a black CBGBs T-shirt and baggy jeans on a big video screen talking about Iraq. By the time I reached the main floor he was just coming through the doorway. "Weren't you just speaking in the debate about the war?" I asked. "Which side were you on?"
"Supporting the reconstruction of Iraq," he said.
"What about the motion to set a date for withdrawal?"
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