From: "Gary Britt" 

I didn't forget.  I knew you or another member of the doom and gloom crowd
would seek to find that dark lining in this silver cloud.

Those negative aspects show confusion and conflict in the poll.  You don't
think ABC would create a poll not designed to guarantee some negatives
somewhere.

The good news is good news.  There is no dark lining in that silver cloud.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> > Unlike the bullshit reports from some here, ABC News, no friend of the
> > Bushies and no supporter of the war, has revealed the following from
their
> > own polling in Iraq.
> >
> > 71% of Iraqis say their lives are good and they expect them to get
better
> > in
> > the future.  That's higher than in any blue state in the USA by quite a
> > lot.
> > 74% of Iraqis want USA forces to stay until the Iraqis can maintain
> > reasonable security on their own, and only 10% list the withdrawal of
> > foreign troops within the next year as a "high priority".
> >
> > Now somebody needs to tell Burtha and the rest of the neo-surrender
> > monkeys.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
>
> You forgot the negative aspects of the poll
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=nation_world&id=3717385
> Other views, moreover, are more negative: Fewer than half, 46 percent, say
> the country is better off now than it was before the war. And half of
Iraqis
> now say it was wrong for U.S.-led forces to invade in spring 2003, up from
> 39 percent in 2004.
>
> The number of Iraqis who say things are going well in their country
overall
> is just 44 percent, far fewer than the 71 percent who say their own lives
> are going well. Fifty-two percent instead say the country is doing badly.
>
> There's other evidence of the United States' increasing unpopularity:
> Two-thirds now oppose the presence of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq,
14
> points higher than in February 2004. Nearly six in 10 disapprove of how
the
> United States has operated in Iraq since the war, and most of them
> disapprove strongly. And nearly half of Iraqis would like to see U.S.
forces
> leave soon.
>
> Specifically, 26 percent of Iraqis say U.S. and other coalition forces
> should "leave now" and another 19 percent say they should go after the
> government chosen in this week's election takes office; that adds to 45
> percent. Roughly the other half says coalition forces should remain until
> security is restored (31 percent), until Iraqi security forces can operate
> independently (16 percent), or longer (5 percent).
>
> This survey was sponsored by ABC News with partners Time, the BBC, the
> Japanese network NHK and the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, with
fieldwork
> by Oxford Research International. It consists of in-person interviews with
a
> random national sample of 1,711 Iraqis from early October through
> mid-November.
>
> There were limitations on questions in the survey because of security
> concerns; given the sectarian violence, Iraqis were not asked their
> religious doctrine, Sunni or Shiite. Instead this analysis looks at
> Sunni-dominated, Shia-dominated, mixed and Kurdish regions, using previous
> data to categorize provinces.
>
>
>
> Anbar
>
> Attitudes in Anbar - a Sunni Arab-dominated province that's been a center
of
> anti-coalition sentiment - are even more extreme than views in other
> predominately Sunni areas. (Anbar includes Fallujah and the provincial
> capital, Ramadi.)
>
> Already lower than in non-Sunni areas, confidence in national institutions
> craters in Anbar: Only three in 10 of those in Anbar have confidence in
the
> police, a scant one in 10 expresses confidence in the new Iraqi army and a
> mere 4 percent approve of the Iraqi government's performance.
>
> The United States fairs even more poorly in Anbar, where a solitary 1
> percent say the U.S.-led invasion was a good thing for Iraq, and not a
> single respondent expresses confidence in the U.S. and U.K. occupation
> forces.
>
> While last year's survey identified strong anti-American sentiment in
Anbar,
> the unsettled security situation may help drive the low ratings of Iraqi
> institutions (only religious leaders are more highly rated in Anbar than
> elsewhere). Nearly half in Anbar call instability their biggest problem -
17
> points more than in other, already on-edge, Sunni areas - and just 13
> percent say their local security situation is good. Only 28 percent expect
> security to improve.
>
> The political outlook, however, could improve. Nearly six in 10 Anbar
> residents have confidence that the elections will lead to a stable
> government. They're also more likely than other Sunnis to be interested in
> politics and to talk politics with others (more than eight in 10 in Anbar
> say they do both). But only two in 10 Anbar residents approve of the newly
> minted constitution.
>
>
>
>

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