Poll: Iraq War Affecting Economic Downturn, Say 9 In 10

According to a new poll by CBS News, 89% of Americans think that the Iraq War has contributed to the country's economic problems. Americans surveyed ranked the war immediately behind the economy as the most pressing problems faced by the nation:

HOW MUCH HAS THE IRAQ WAR CONTRIBUTED TO U.S. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS?

A lot: 67%
Some: 22%
Not much/not at all: 10

Read the entire poll (pdf).

Comments

[Teritt]

If people really cared about Iraq or the economy - McCain wouldn't have this much support and such high poll numbers.

[Nyla785]

Anyone who thinks the billions of borrowed money we're throwing at Iraq every month doesn't affect our economy here must be subscribing to that Republican 'denial of facts that don't fit the ideology' theory of analytical thinking.

[MetalCanuck]

The Iraq war and inflation will take the economy down...but if somehow the economy survives social security and medicare will take it down by 2020.

[forpeace]

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American Troops Going Insane--www.freedomfighterradio.net

God bless America?

Would god bless this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5_vG3cYGM

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[UncleJimbo]

So?

[Ramirez]

Everythime the government spends money on anything it contributes to the state of the economy.

Who thinks up these survey questions?

[Sanjong Thapa]

MIke -- is that you?

If so -- CONGRATS on the Pulitzer!

www.ibdeditorials.com

http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/04/07/michael-ramirez-wins-2008-pulitzer-prize/

[Grannysue]

And McBush says SOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOO

[acudoctor]

Some people are making money

FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
By Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (IPS) - U.S. lawmakers have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a review of financial documents has revealed.

Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to U.S. armed forces, say nonpartisan watchdog groups

Other top investors include Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen, a New Jersey Republican with holdings of 12.1 million - 49.1 million dollars; Rep. Robin Hayes, a North Carolina Republican (9.2 million - 37.1 million dollars); Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin (5.2 million - 7.6 million dollars); and Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat (2.7 million - 6.3 million dollars).

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Democrat and former governor of West Virginia who chairs the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, invested some 2.0 million dollars in Pentagon contractors, CRP says.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41893

[MilwaukeeDan]

Just one more reason we will never leave.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

The real mortality in the Iraq war is being hidden by the DoD. It's far higher than 4,000:
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1669.htm
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2540.htm#001

[AdLib]

As always, excellent links!

[glesslib]

I have NEVER believed the government was giving us the real numbers. They lied to get us in, lied to us every day about how it was going, so, of course, they would lie about the number of deaths.

I had heard that once an injured soldier is flown out of the country for treatment and dies, he is no longer considered a casualty of the Iraq War. As the Church Lady used to say, " How convenient!"

[Witchitalineman]

Anyone who doesn't think the Iraq war is sinking us financially (not to mention the deaths of our service personnel) has to be living on another planet. We cannot afford to stay in Iraq!!

[AdLib]

McCain: "My friends, though 89% of the American people say Iraq has contributed to our economic problems, they DIDN'T say that was a bad thing. In fact, it's approaching normal."

[Grannysue]

Gee for those who were against it from the beginning it's not news the GOPERS must have just taken their meds and filled up their gas tanks.

[osage]

Didn't the Bush administration make the ridiculously lame claim early on that the Iraq inavsion would pay for itself? That it wouldn't cost us anything? If hundreds of billions and or trillions of dollars were invested in the American economny TODAY, would it or wouldn't it have a noticeable affect? You'd have to be a moron or a Bush Republican to claim otherwise!

[outnow]

We should be going green. Instead, we are going red. The war mentality is incompatible with sustainability. Financially, someone bears the burdens of war.

[NoahVail]

In a related story, one in ten Americans don't know their ass from a hole-in-the-ground.

[AdLib]

The old joke, "Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking."

[NoahVail]

Or, as the old sherif back in Tennessee told us when we were kids:

Boys- votin' is jes like drahving this here automatic car.
If you wants to go fo-wad, put er in D.
If you wants to go backards, jes put er in R.