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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: tejek who wrote (56299)3/20/2007 6:29:23 PM
From: Sully-   of 90947
 
Ah, the old but often used MSM trick of making headline "newz" out of fraudulent polls as part of their zealous attempt to mislead Americans about what's really happening in Iraq.

Then there's reality. You know the one the left wing MSM refuses to report to Americans.

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Iraqis ask: Civil war, what civil war?

Call it dueling polls.

First, the USA Today/Gallup poll found 76% of Americans believe there is a civil war in Iraq.

Next, an Opinion Research Business poll found that 61% of Iraqis say there is NO CIVIL WAR.

But what do those Iraqis know? They only live there, while Americans watch this stuff on TV.

Well, not actually watch this stuff. Jon Stewart and Jay Leno make jokes about it all the time so it must be true.

Lifting from Marie Colvin’s report in the Sunday Times of London:
    49% of those questioned preferred life under Nouri al-
    Maliki, the prime minister, to living under Saddam. Only
    26% said things had been better in Saddam’s era, while 16%
    said the two leaders were as bad as each other and the
    rest did not know or refused to answer.
Well, so much for Saddam's popularity. Didn’t he get 100% of the vote in 2002?

But this was the big news:
    Another surprise was that only 27% believed they were
    caught up in a civil war. Again, that number divided along
    religious lines, with 41% of Sunnis believing Iraq was in
    a civil war, compared with only 15% of Shi’ites.
Not even a majority of the Sunnis say it is a civil war.
I guess the American leftist media forgot to tell the Iraqis that Iraq is having a civil war.

Either that or Iraqis are all watching Fox.

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