BOSTON (Reuters) - An Internet-based group of activists has remade a chilling Cold War-era television advertisement to try to turn the public against a war in Iraq.

The advertisement resurrects former Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's "Daisy" election ad of 1964 which tried to depict Republican Barry Goldwater as a trigger-happy extremist who could usher in nuclear Armageddon if elected president.

Like the original, the 30-second spot, airing in several cities on Thursday, begins with a little girl picking petals from a daisy and ends with the mushroom-shaped cloud of a nuclear explosion.

"War with Iraq," a narrator says. "Maybe it will end quickly. Maybe not. Maybe it will spread. Maybe extremists will take over countries with nuclear weapons."

The ad, which also features footage of burning oil wells and a crowd of Middle Easterners seething with anger, concludes with the words: "Let the inspections work."

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