April 4, 2008
COST OF WAR:
NEW POLL SHOWS 89 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SEE
WAR IN IRAQ AS DRAIN ON U.S. ECONOMY
The American people understand the enormous cost of the war in Iraq - to our troops, our military readiness, and to our struggling economy.
In a New York Times/CBS poll released today, 89 percent of those surveyed believe the cost of the war has contributed "a lot" or "some" to U.S. economic problems.
From what you know, how much do you think the cost of the war in Iraq has contributed to the U.S. economic problems - a lot, some, not much or not at all?
A lot: 67%
Some: 22%
Not much: 6%
Not at all: 4%
DK/NA: 2%
President Bush's war in Iraq - now more than five years of fighting - has weakened the American economy and taken us deeper into debt.
As Nobel Prize winning laureate Joseph Stiglitz has said: "The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose roles go far beyond the loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion on a failed war and not feel the pain at home." [Washington Post op-ed, 3/9/08 ]
Americans are demanding leadership on the economy and Iraq, not a plan to run out the clock until the next President takes office in January 2009.
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