 Yet, with some exceptions—among whom, in a special place of honour, stands Tony Benn—few contemporary British leftists show any interest in dispersing power when doing so would mean challenging public sector monopolies.Cameron also said in 2008 that, alongside George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Benn's "Arguments for Democracy" was "a very powerful book which makes the important point that we vest power in people who are elected, and that we can get rid of, rather than those we can't".At the Stop the War Conference 2009, he described the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as "Imperialist war(s)" and discussed the killing of American and allied troops by Iraqi or foreign insurgents, questioning whether they were in fact freedom fighters, and comparing the insurgents to a British Dad's Army, saying