From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Why would you add Saddam into the leave immediately question?  Skewing the
poll with Bushian logic?


"Mark"  wrote in message
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>I wonder how the results would go if the question were phrased: "The U.S.
>is leaving tomorrow and releasing Saddam to his primary palace with a
>battalion of his former loyal troops, do you still want them to leave?
>Yes___ No___
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:435ead69$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:435ea773$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>  > "...for example saying that "82 per cent are
"strongly opposed" to
>>> the presence of coalition troops" is a pretty much tricky sentence
>>> because while I do think that maybe even 90% of the people in any
>>> country do not want foreign troops on their land, it remains important
>>> to state whether a time interval was included in the question or not. If
>>> not, then the question was designed to give a misleading result and if
>>> there was one, then it should have appeared along with the results.
>>>
>>> I mean it could be true or close to the truth that 82% of Iraqis do not
>>> want the troops to stay indefinitely but if it was meant to say that 82%
>>> want the troops to leave now then I assure you that the results have
>>> been forged. Moreover, there are some contradictions among the results,
>>> look at this one closely "43 per cent of Iraqis believe
conditions for
>>> peace and stability have worsened" this means that 57% of
the answers
>>> either indicated that stability and peace have improved or they have not
>>> changed ..."
>>> http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/10/polls-can-we-rely-on-them.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Last year 71% wished us to leave immediately -  81% if the Kurds were
>> excluded so it doesn't look like those numbers have changed.  I'll admit
>> I am surprised at the number that supposedly supports attacks as way more
>> Iraqis are hurt than coalition forces
>>
>>
>> http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html
>>
>> To get a sense of what Iraqis were thinking a year after the overthrow of
>> former dictator Saddam Hussein, researchers for the Gallup Organization,
>> working with funding from CNN and USA Today, sat down with 3444 Iraqis in
>> March and early April (before the latest outbreaks of violence). They
>> conducted interviews that lasted as long as 70 minutes (often at great
>> personal risk). And what they found does not bode well in the short-term
>> for the US and its allies in Iraq, although it may bode well for the
>> future of Iraq as a democracy
>>
>> Other telling findings of the survey were that an overwhelming majority
>> of Iraqis, 71 percent (and that figure rises to 81 percent if the Kurdish
>> areas in the north are excluded), now see the US-led coalition as an
>> occupying force and not as liberators. USA Today reports that a solid
>> majority, almost 60 percent, want the US and its allies to leave
>> immediately, even if it means the security situation will deteriorate.
>>
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