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To: Dayuhan who wrote (9349)9/25/2003 7:46:13 AM
From: LindyBill   of 793755
 
Interesting Gallup Poll results from Baghdad. Especially when you consider that at least a third of the people being polled were Sunnis who were on Saddams payroll. The Iraqis think we are doing better than the Democrats do.
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Best of the Web today - BY JAMES TARANTO

Galluping Into Baghdad
Two weeks ago Karl Zinsmeister of The American Enterprise reported the results of a Zogby poll his magazine commissioned of Iraqis in four cities. Now Gallup has taken a poll of a city that was not among those four: Baghdad. Gallup visited 1,178 Baghdadis at home for face-to-face interviews, and here's what it found:

67% say Iraq will be better off five years from now than it was before liberation; only 8% say they expect to be worse off.

47% say the country is worse off now than before liberation; 33% say it's better off.

62% say ousting Saddam Hussein from power was worth the attendant hardships.

Half say the coalition authorities are doing a better job than a month ago; only 14% say they're doing a worse job.
Possibly excepting the second item, this is all very encouraging--especially since Baghdad is part of the "Sunni triangle" where most of the attacks by Saddam supporters and terrorists have taken place. "Richard Burkholder, head of the Gallup team in Baghdad, said residents of the city of more than 6 million were eager to talk with his researchers," the Associated Press reports.

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