From: Gary Britt 

The two polls aren't mutually exclusive.  They could both be quite correct.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:45fda05f{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Richard B. wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:24:14 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1530762.ece
>>>> MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it
was under Saddam
>>>> Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today.
>>>>
>>> Considering almost no good news is reported by the enemy-abetting
>>> US/World media, the truth still longs to be free.
>>>
>>> - Richard
>> This is reported by the Media thus.....? Oh the joys of a good paranoid
>> conspiracy.
>
> Well we do appear to have two polls with radically different findings. I
> suppose this one is the media conspiracy poll ;-)
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4642933.html
> Among the findings of this survey for ABC News, USA Today, the BBC and ARD
> German TV:
>
> _The number of Iraqis who say their own life is going well has dipped from
> 71 percent in November 2005 to 39 percent now.
>
> _About three-fourths of Iraqis report feelings of anger, depression and
> difficulty concentrating.
>
> _More than half of Iraqis have curtailed activities like going out of their
> homes, going to markets or other crowded places and traveling through police
> checkpoints.
>
> _Only 18 percent of Iraqis have confidence in U.S. and coalition troops, and
> 86 percent are concerned that someone in their household will be a victim of
> violence.
>
> _Slightly more than half of Iraqis - 51 percent - now say that violence
> against U.S. forces is acceptable - up from 17 percent who felt that way in
> early 2004. More than nine in 10 Sunni Arabs in Iraq now feel this way.
>
> _While 63 percent said they felt very safe in their neighborhoods in late
> 2005, only 26 percent feel that way now.
>
> The major cause for this sharp reversal in Iraqi attitudes is the continuing
> violence - bombings, attacks by roving gunmen and kidnappings - that has
> overwhelmed the country since the U.S. invasion four years ago this week.
>
> Eighty percent of Iraqis surveyed reported some kind of violence nearby,
> according to the nationally representative survey conducted Feb. 25 to March
> 5 among 2,212 Iraqis, including oversamples - or additional interviews - in
> Anbar province, the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk. Results
> were subject to a sampling error margin of plus or minus 2.5 percentage
> points.
>
> Polling in a war-torn country can be more difficult because respondents are
> fearful. ABC pollster Gary Langer said the interviewers were experienced in
> polling in such situations and the questionnaire was extensive and carefully
> translated, adding that those who were afraid could just refuse to
> participate. The survey was done by D3 Systems, a pollster specializing in
> conflict countries.
>
> Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000, possibly much
> higher. More than half of Iraqis surveyed said a friend or relative has been
> hurt or killed in the violence, while almost nine in 10 worried that a loved
> one will be hurt.
>
> The levels of stress soar outside relatively peaceful Kurdistan, especially
> in Baghdad and the Sunni-dominated Anbar province, the poll found.
>
> Fewer than half in the country, 42 percent, said that life in Iraq now is
> better than it was under Saddam Hussein, the late dictator accused of
> murdering tens of thousands during a brutal regime.
>
> Iraqis pessimism about safety spills over into their views of most aspects
> of life - the economy, basic needs like power and clean water, even the
> risks of sending their children to school.
>
> But views of the U.S. military presence are contradictory among Iraqis -
> just as they are in this country.
>
> About four in five Iraqis oppose the presence of U.S. troops but only a
> third want those U.S. troops to leave Iraq immediately.
>
> Conducting the face-to-face poll was a difficult ordeal in such a violent
> country. More than 100 Iraqi interviewers conducted the poll and some
> reported seeing bombings, beatings and even a mass kidnapping. Several teams
> of interviewers were detained by police - but every interviewer made it home
> safely.
>
>
>

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