'Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he has no regrets about supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq and argues the US death toll in the conflict is "minute" from a historical perspective.
The News Corporation chief was speaking on the eve of US mid-term elections where President George W Bush's Republican Party is tipped to lose seats in part due to a backlash over the war.
"The death toll, certainly of Americans there, by the terms of any previous war are quite minute," Mr Murdoch told reporters at a conference in Tokyo.'