US public against Afghanistan, Iraq wars

As the Obama administration struggles to handle the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a majority of Americans are against the long-fought wars, a new poll says.

The AP-GfK Poll released on Thursday showed that 63% of respondents oppose the war in Iraq and 53% oppose the war in Afghanistan.

This is while 34% favor the Iraq battlefield and 44% favor the conflict in Afghanistan, according to the poll.

The survey also revealed that 56% of Americans approve President Barack Obama's handling of the situation in Iraq and 55% approve his handling of Afghanistan. Both numbers are down just slightly since April.

July is already the deadliest month of the war for both US and NATO forces with 63 international troops killed, including 35 Americans and 19 Britons.

Seven and half years after the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan to allegedly root out the country's militancy US Vice-President Joe Biden in an interview with the BBC said that groups based on Afghanistan's border with Pakistan could 'wreak havoc' on the US and Europe.

"In terms of national interest of Great Britain, the US and Europe, (the war) is worth the effort we are making and the sacrifice that is being felt," he added.

The US Vice President also warned "there are more to come" and US and UK casualties could be expected to climb.

The poll has been released days after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that the Obama administration will risk losing public support for the war in Afghanistan if the coalition forces fail to turn the situation around within a year.

The poll was conducted July 16-20 and involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,006 adults nationwide.
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Bomb blast in Iraqi market kills 50

Exactly when we can see the quiet Iraq ?

A bomb blast at a market place in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has left over fifty people dead and many more injured, police say.

At least 104 others were wounded in the blast which occurred in a crowded food market in Baghdad's Shia neighborhood of Sadr City on Wednesday.

Police say the bomb was hidden under vegetables on a pushcart near a market, adding that the death toll is expected to rise as some of the wounded are in a critical condition.

The deadly attack comes nearly a week ahead of the deadline set for US combat troops' withdrawal from Iraq's urban centers, as part of a security accord between Baghdad and Washington.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has repeatedly said that the militant attacks are likely to rise in the coming weeks to "undermine confidence in Iraq's own security forces."
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Scores killed in Iraq's truck bombing

More than 46 people have been killed and 166 others have been wounded in a truck bombing near a Shia mosque in northern Iraq, authorities say.

The explosion targeted the mosque in the south of the city of Kirkuk on Saturday.

"The toll from the suicide explosion has reached 46 killed and 166 wounded," Kirkuk provincial deputy police chief Torhan Yusuf Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Earlier on Friday, two Iraqi security agents were killed and another two were wounded as a bomb ripped through Tabaj village in the town of Jalawlaa in the Khanaqin district of the Diyala province.

In other incident on Friday, a policeman was killed north of Baquba. The incident happened on the main road between Jalal and al-Saadiya, south of Khanaqin.
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What is your idea ? Is it good for Iraqi people that USA army stay in Iraq ? Or not good ?

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