Cher ‘shocked’ on visit to maimed US troops

POP celebrity Cher has waded into the debate over the war on Iraq, saying that she was shocked by a recent visit to a hospital for wounded American troops.

Cher unexpectedly phoned a US radio talk show without saying who she was and condemned the way maimed soldiers were being hidden from the public.

She said that a recent visit she made to see injured soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington was "the most heinous thing I have ever seen".