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Iraq Poll: Please Leave

By TChris, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 08:02:58 AM EST
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Among those who believe that the U.S. military presence in Iraq is making life less safe -- most Iraqis.

About three-quarters of Iraqis believe U.S. forces are provoking more conflict than they are preventing in Iraq and should be withdrawn within a year, a survey released on Wednesday showed. ...

That poll found a strong majority of Iraqis wanted American forces to leave immediately. It asked whether people favored U.S. troops leaving immediately, staying until the government asked them to leave or saying until the violence stopped.

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    Iraq Poll: Please Leave | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#1)
    by roy on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 09:51:48 AM EST
    I usually complain about sloppy interpretation and bad math on these poll threads, but this one is actually pretty good. World Public Opinion and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (basically two parts of the same organization) seem to have pretty solid reputations. The questions look fair, and actually related to the interpretation presented to the press. WPO's short writeup of the results is here. Longer version here (PDF). Questions and methology here (PDF). The one that depresses me most is #15. "If the Iraqi government were to tell the US to withdraw all of its forces within six months do you think the US would or would not do so?". 78% said we wouldn't.

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 11:26:25 AM EST
    You don't ask invaders to leave. You have to force tham out. Keep killing them and anyone who supports them until they give up*. *see Vietnam

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#2)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 03:40:49 PM EST
    Question to the Iraqi people: Ain't democracy grand? Especially the kind imposed by a military occupation that will never end. Wingnut response: 75 percent of the Iraqi population are now terrorists.

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#5)
    by Sailor on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 07:12:11 PM EST
    The majority of Iraqis want us out. The majority of Americans want us out. It begs the question; why are we still there?

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 08:10:52 PM EST
    Woodward has a new book hitting bookstores monday: State of Denial: Bush at War III. He'll also do 60 Minutes on sunday to talk about it:
    According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret," CBS News reports. "It's getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week," Woodward tells Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. "That's more than 100 a day," says Woodward. "That is four an hour attacking our forces."
    --from RawStory

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#6)
    by kdog on Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 09:31:05 AM EST
    President Bush: "We fight them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here." Iraqi People: "Thanks a lot arsehole."

    Re: Iraq Poll: Please Leave (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 09:47:44 AM EST
    Hmm. A curious absence of pro-war, pro-occupation, stay-the-course folks on this thread.

    Iraq Poll: Please Leave | 7 comments (7 topical)