Ice cream entrepreneur Ben Cohen, the Ben in Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, kicked off an Iowa campaign last Tuesday to put the freeze on wasteful military spending, diverting as much as $60 billion to social programs.

It's an early sign that political groups already are establishing themselves in Iowa, where presidential hopefuls soon will be campaigning for the January 2008 first-in-the-nation caucuses.

"It seems to me that every four years candidates come through Iowa and it's always all talk, nothing ever changes. Our schools are still crumbling, children still need health care, there's still this energy crisis and millions of kids are still starving around the world," Cohen said.

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