60% believe Iraq war spending 'a waste' (UK)

[CShine]

Sixty per cent of people think Government spending on the war on Iraq was "a waste of money", and should have been spent on overseas aid, a new poll shows. The survey shows that most Britons would have preferred the billions spent on invading and occupying Iraq to be channelled towards helping the world's poor.

Women were particularly angry about the use of taxpayers' money to invade Iraq. Two-thirds of women believe the money set aside for Iraq should have been spent on aid, according to the YouGov poll. The Government has reserved £3.8bn for the Iraq war but some estimate the war and occupation could cost the British taxpayer up to £6bn.

The poll comes as world leaders gathered today at the G8 meeting of leading industrialised nations in the state of Georgia, in the United States.

The YouGov poll also shows that Tony Blair's foreign and domestic policies are unpopular with majority of Britons. Fifty-seven per cent of people disapprove of the Government's international policies while 51 per cent disapprove of his domestic agenda.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=529308

[JoFerret]

1. What's with the other 40%?

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[Paradise]

2. we're on a not-so-merry-go-round in iraq,

and, obviously, throwing good money after bad. :crazy:

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

:kick:

[saigon68]

4. Children not educated, Seniors with no prescriptions

MERCENARY THUGS WITH $1,500.00 A DAY = MANY OF THEM