Iraqis are making enormous sacrifices everyday in the fight for freedom alongside coalition forces, US President George W Bush said today in a new plea for patience from his country.

JOHN Kerry, carefully tiptoeing around the question of whether the war in Iraq is right or wrong, argued the case that he is more able than President George W Bush to lead the nation in a time of war.

The US is braced for more polling day mayhem this week as technical glitches threaten to turn the crucial mid-term vote into a repeat of the 2000 presidential election fiasco.