Iraq Opinion Poll: Look Past The Hype!
Mr Spoon | 12.12.2005 11:48
Re. latest opinion poll from Iraq, now being frantically hyped by the armchair imperialists as another new dawn - but if you drill down into the detail:
"However, this finding is balanced by the results of the very first question, which asks about the state of the country, not the state of the individual.
And here the picture is gloomier. Fifty-three percent say the situation is bad and 44% that it is good. The country is split.
A similar division emerges from the question about the US-led invasion.
Some 50% said it was wrong and 47% said it was right, compared with 39% and 49% respectively in the last poll - so support for the invasion has gone down.
And the occupation troops are unpopular (65% are opposed to them, though again with regional variations) with much greater favour being given to indigenous Iraqi security forces."
[source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4511688.stm]
Mr Spoon
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