March 19, 2008 - Washington, DC -- Seven of 10 U.S. adults blame the Iraq war for the country's current economic problems, a survey indicated.

Only 28 percent of those surveyed for the CNN/Opinion Research poll found no link between the economy and the war. The majority said war spending is at least partly to blame for growing unemployment and other signs of a slowing economy.

On the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the war continues to be unpopular, the poll found. While 32 percent of respondents support the Iraq effort, 66 percent oppose it.

Opinion Research surveyed 1,019 people between Friday and Sunday. No margin of error was reported.

Two economists -- Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University and Linda Bilmes of Harvard -- have estimated the total cost of the war will amount to three trillion dollars and predicted a major downturn if the war continues. President George W. Bush disputes that.

"I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs ... because we're buying equipment and people are working," he said last month on NBC's "Today" program. "I think this economy is down because we built too many houses and the economy's adjusting."