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

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

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.

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.

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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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So?

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

Who thinks up these survey questions?

And McBush says SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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

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

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!!

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."

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.

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!

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

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

I guess 3 trillion dollars misdirected would impact the economy.

Too bad.

Ugh. --UB.

Nothing at all to do with a 9 or 10 trillion dollar debt, nothing at all.

Bush was worse then a drunken gambling addict in Vegas with someone else's company credit card.

First he ran through the money in his pocket, the volunteer force, then he hired thugs off the street at five times the cost with a credit card to be paid for by people who are not even born yet.

Now the talk is a ninety year occupation. When will we stop digging our economic grave?

wow! we are pretty slow but finally some common sense...

One of my clients is a brokerage company, they have the financial channel on, and the war is rarely ever mentioned there as a factor in the economy. I think that's just dumb.

It has taken many years but finally people now understand that Bush's and Clinton's war in Iraq is a disaster in more ways than one.

And yet close to 48% will still vote for McCain.

OK- Who are the 10% that say the Iraq war is not affecting the US economic problems?

I would assume that they either
a)cannot read/live in a cave OR
b) are the heads of corporations like Haliburton & Blackwater.

Lindsay Graham gets all excited about a winning outcome in Iraq. Our sorry economy is the outcome. The surge will not fix it.