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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 9:56am.
ABCNews, Time, the BBC, NHK, and Der Spiegel had a poll conducted by Oxford Research International asking 1,711 Iraqi people their view on the current situation in their country.
» The results? 70% said their own personal situation was good! "Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead." "Across Iraq, most local conditions are rated positively — and more so than in early 2004. This survey finds 10- to 13-point gains in ratings of local crime protection, security and medical care, as well as in the still-problematic areas of electric supply and jobs." Of course, we're far from perfection. If you add it up, about 45% of the people would like to see the US leave in the very near future. The situation there, however, would hardly appear to be as dire as some in this country continue to portray it. It would almost appear we're inching closer to an exit with Iraq as a reasonable level of success. Link: http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1389228
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I think you stopped reading t
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 10:34am.I think you stopped reading m
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 10:51am.From my original entry:
"Of course, we're far from perfection. If you add it up, about 45% of the people would like to see the US leave in the very near future."
I apologize if I didn't do a bullet-by-bullet summary of the article (which is why I provided a link). I'll be sure to do that next time.
I haven't read President Bush
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 11:19am.He was correct in stating that a democractic Iraq is a threat to many governments in the region, simply because if Iraq is able to succeed, it will give reformers in their own countries the ammunition they need to possibly topple the established authority.
Iraq has everything from their neighboring countries to an American public working against them and, it would appear, an increasingly smaller base actually hoping to see this through to the (bitter?) end.
I agree that democracy is nee
Submitted by Rob Richards on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 12:10pm.