This will be the first real evidence of how the tech sector is doing after the Iraq war.

The Iraq situation just seems to hang over business investment decisions, which is critical right now, ... Unfortunately, we're dependent upon enterprise spending. We're seeing signs that telecom is starting to catch on. But if you look at a company like Cisco, where two-thirds of their business is tied to enterprise spending, we're still in this quagmire.

Since Ms. Farrell herself terms the war in Iraq 'the most important issue' in her campaign, she should probably focus on working out the differences she had with Sen. Lieberman . . . whose views on the war in Iraq are virtually identical to Christopher's.

We don't have any concrete fundamentals to give the market direction, ... I thought that the war being over would translate into corporate IT purchasing, but that hasn't happened.

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

We're building a growing movement against the war in Iraq that will give people who feel uncomfortable about the war a place to share their concerns and discuss and work through a solution -- should it be immediate withdrawal or an exit strategy. We want to build a consensus that we want to get out.