Actress SUSAN SARANDON is urging candidates standing in next year’s US presidential election to support a campaign to end the occupation of Iraq.

Outspoken anti-war campaigner Sarandon admits she was unimpressed with President GEORGE W BUSH’s calls to “give his troops a chance” through his State Of The Union address this week – and instead is speaking out in support of plans to withdraw US forces from Iraq within a six-month time frame.

She says, “He (Bush) didn’t talk to me about anything new, (but) we’re hoping to ask all the candidates in the future, everyone that’s hoping to run, to really make this part of their campaigns.”

Sarandon will join fellow Hollywood actors SEAN PENN and her partner TIM ROBBINS this weekend at an Iraq war protest in Washington DC.

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