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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (204067)9/22/2006 11:36:30 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The US Department of Defense has now provided another measure of the problem it faces. Its latest opinion poll carried out in Iraq indicates that, among the five million Sunni Muslims there, about 75% now support the armed insurgency against the coalition.

This compares with 14% in the first opinion poll the Defense Department carried out back in 2003. It is a catastrophic loss of support, and there is no sign whatever that it can be effectively reversed. ...

news.bbc.co.uk

What's the target metric? Is Bush going for 100% supporting the insurgency?

jttmab
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