Poll: US will be bogged down - Iraq - 70% [View All]

With public confidence declining in President George W Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, nearly 70% of Americans feel the United States will be bogged down in the country for years without achieving its goals, a poll finds.

The Newsweek poll released on Saturday also found that nearly 6 of 10 people are concerned that the US military will be overextended should another security threat arise outside Iraq. And 7 of 10 are concerned the costs of the war will increase the deficit and hurt the economy.

The war costs the United States roughly $1bn per week.

The poll of 1 011 adults was taken on Thursday and on Friday, just after last week's suicide truck bombing at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed the top UN envoy there and at least 22 others.

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