18% of Americans think Iraq war was "worth costs"

18% of Americans think Iraq war was "worth costs"

NEW YORK -- Only 18 percent of Americans think the war in Iraq was "worth the costs" - including the money spent, and the loss of "American lives."

According to a new CBC/New York Times poll, quoted by RT.com, 75 percent said the war was not worth the costs, up from 67 percent in November 2011 and 45 percent in August 2003.

These costs, according to a New York Times op-ed by Nicholas Kristoff, come to "4,500 American and 500,000 Iraqi lives."

The latter figure is based on "a mortality study published in a peer-reviewed American journal."

Harvard expert in public finance Linda Bilmes was also quoted as saying that her latest estimate of the total cost of the war to the United States "will be USD 4 trillion.”