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He was an advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and a critic of the Stop the War Coalition. In 2006, he was a leading signatory to the Euston Manifesto, which proposed "a new political alignment", in which the left opposes terrorism and anti-Americanism. An opponent of what he has termed the "tyrannophile left", Cohen has criticised such people as Andrew Murray and George Galloway, while expressing his admiration for the opposition movements in countries such as Belarus. Cohen is an atheist.
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