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Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll  

Posted Mar 19, 08 1:31 PM CDT in Business,  US    Editor's Choice

(newser) – The Iraq war and the current economic crisis aren’t unrelated issues in the minds of most Americans, a CNN poll finds. 71% said the war, which began five years ago today, helped cause the economic storm. Just 32% support the mission, with 61% saying the new president should withdraw most troops “within a few months of taking office.”

Two economists recently wrote that the war would ultimately cost $3 trillion, and the fallout would lead to the worst downturn since the Great Depression. “Others will have to work out the geopolitics,” they said, “but the economics here are clear.” President Bush said that figure is exaggerated: “I think the economy is down because we built too many houses."

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Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
George W. Bush meets with economic advisers at the White House on March 17, 2008.   (Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
President Bush makes remarks on the economy, Monday, March 17, 2008, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
President Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, Thursday, May 1, 2003.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
U.S. army soldiers from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, Iraq, Jan. 10,...   (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
U.S. President George W. Bush igreets U.S. troops at the U.S. Camp Arifjan, 40 km south of Kuwait City on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008.   (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
A foreclosure sign tops a sale sign outside an existing home on the market in northwest Denver in this photograph taken on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007.   (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Americans Blame War for Economic Woes: Poll
President Bush pauses while speaking about the economy during an address before The Economic Club of New York, Friday, March 14, 2008, in New York.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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