From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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>  > "...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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