New poll show Americans losing Iraq
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Wednesday April 28, 2004 23:07
by David C.
A new poll released today shows that a majority of Iraqis believe that attacks on US forces are justified.
The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll is the first poll since the invasion to cover urban and rural areas throughout Iraq, representing about 93 percent of the population. It was conduced between March 22 and April 9 - before the latest flare-up of violence - and has a sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Some highlights from the poll:
-52% percent said attacks on US forces could be justified some or all of the time. 47 % said they believed attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq could not be justified.
-46% said the war had done more harm than good, while 33% said the war had done more good than harm
-57% want US/UK forces to leave immediately, the poll said, whereas 36% said troops should stay longer.
- 67% said that US troops were not trying at all to keep ordinary Iraqis from being killed in exchanges of gunfire.
-71% said they saw troops mostly as occupiers, while only 19 % said they viewed them as liberators. Asked how they viewed troops at the time of the invasion a year ago, the respondents were split, with 43% saying they had seen the coalition forces as occupiers and another 43% saying they had considered them liberators.
Again, these poll results are from BEFORE the recent Shia uprising and the attack by US forces on Fallujah, which have clearly increased animosity towards the Americans dramatically throughout Iraq.
The Americans are losing. The entire nation of Iraq is uniting against them and their choice is therefore either to surrender and leave, or to commit atrocities on a massive scale in full view of the world. This has been a tragedy for everyone involved, however a humiliating defeat for the US in Iraq will make the world a safer place. This poll shows that defeat to be merely a matter of time.
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go on we dare ye!
"The entire nation of Iraq is uniting against them"
May or may not be true -- but there is no logical way you could draw THAT conclusion from a "national" poll in a regionally divided country. Take your own island for example and a question such as "All of Ireland should be united and fully independnet of Great Britain." On an "all island" basis the opposition to this proposition might seem trivial, but isn''t because it is regionally concentrated.
We had better consider whether US policy was even intended to hang on to a united Iraq, whether the US wants Iraq to be united. If this IS "all about oil" we need to consider that had after the initial victory the US and Britain immediately "paritioned" Iraq into three parts the world would have screamed bloody murder. Now we see organized armed resistance to the US in central Iraq (no oil) but none in the Kurdish North (oil) and maybe, just maybe, US gets pushed out of central Iraq and maybe something "just happens to come about" that the US would not have been allowed to do. This smells to high heaven.
didn't ye like notice?
That poll last nite.Gosh David C quoting from a evil American corporate propaganda news source???Whatever next?
True, Lone Gunman. The actual reality is probably even worse for the U.S. than the poll suggests!
or "Big Government Federal Policy"?
The Constitution of the USA has been undermined for more than a century.
Hilary, your handies in the air with a million wymin is very impressive, and your looking over the shoulder of one monster for so many years was and is appreciated, but even you must recognise the need for complete
"Reformation and Reclaiming of the USA".
The World can not continue with the USA in it's present form. Not a single century forecast modeling has worked with the USA.
Solution:-
End the USA.
Ghadaffi is very supportive of this "pro Europe" strategy by the way, and if you think about it, Europe has not been accused of being the "Great Satan" has it?
Quite.
End the USA.
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