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| Iraqis 'pessimistic' about future |
| 2007-03-20 |
| Iraqis are feeling increasingly pessimistic and insecure about their future, four years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a poll. Only 26 per cent of 2,000 people questioned across all 18 Iraqi provinces said they felt safe in their own neighbourhoods, the survey by pollsters D3 Systems indicates. Forty per cent said they thought the general situation in the country will improve. The poll, commissioned by the BBC and US broadcaster ABC News, said 39 per cent of Iraqis questioned believed their lives were going well, while 35 per cent said their lives will improve over the next year. About 78 per cent of Iraqis opposed the presence of coalition forces, and 69 per cent said their presence worsened the security situation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Actually, Strategy Page estimates the Sunni share of the population is only 10% of the population. If you adjust accordingly, public opinion looks pretty good in Iraq. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-03-20 14:24 |
| #5 In other words, two-thirds felt safe, while only one-third felt not safe. How's that compare to say, Los Angeles? (City, not Beverly Hills) "The Soviet team finished second, while the American team finished next-to-last." What if there were only two in the race? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-03-20 05:52 |
| #4 Poll transcript (PDF) Only 26 per cent of 2,000 people questioned across all 18 Iraqi provinces said they felt safe in their own neighbourhoods Now the real question: Q31 How safe do you feel in your neighbourhood? Do you feel very safe (26%), not very safe (41%), or not safe at all (33%)? |
| Posted by: Shavigum Stalin4492 2007-03-20 04:04 |
| #3 Saw a lot of it on CNN last nite. Many ordinary Iraqis are now caught up in the geopol face-off between Dubya + Moud. This is yet another reason why Dubya has to do his best to induce 'regime change" in Iran ASAP. Part of it is that mainstream America wants victory in the WOT, at the same time they don't want their soldiers fighting in Iraq-Afghanistan for ever and ever. AMERS WANT RESULTS, RESULTS LEADING TO VICTORY AND PEACE AND SOLDIER BOYZ COMING HOME, NOT TO HEAR "WAR FOR WAR'S SAKE". DITTO FOR IRAQIS - EVERY DAY OR WEEK THAT THE INSURGENCY GOES ON IS ANOTHER DAY OR WEEK PROVING = ALLUDING THAT AMERICA = DEMOCRACY HAS FAILED OR IS FAILING TO WIN. Amer must show that its way or the democratic way is better than Saddam's way + better for the Iraqi People-Nation. Is why the USA-CENTCOM must engage in "National Reconstruction", + why pro-democratic "regime change" must take place in Radical Iran. IFF THIS WAS THE COLD WAR AND THE USA WAS THE USSR, MOUD + MULLAHCRACY WOULD BE OVERTHROWN, EXILED IFF NOT EXECUTED EN MASSE ALREADY, AS DEPENDENT ON COMMIE INTERESTS IN KEEPING THEM ALIVE vv USA-NATO. Iraq needs "National Improvement", not merely "National Reconstruction", to entrench democracy. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-20 02:19 |
| #2 One hilarious scientific experiment would be to identify a district with a very high % of respondents saying Coalition presence "worsened" the situation - then arrange to have this presence ended. As the change begins, re-interview the respondents (if they're still there), see, uh, if their views had changed. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-03-20 01:00 |
| #1 The "internals" show that 35% of the respondents were Sunni Arabs, which constituted 20% of the population 4 years ago and probably 15% today, given the massive out-migration to Syria, Jordan, etc. IOW the Sunni Arabs were oversampled 100%. Nice. |
| Posted by: ghostcat 2007-03-20 00:37 |