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To: Road Walker who wrote (256794)	10/23/2005 12:10:31 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) of 1577119

Eighty-two percent of those polled said they were "strongly opposed" to the presence of the troops. Do you believe this? Do you think 82% of adult Iraqis want foreign troops to immediately withdraw from the country? At least that's the implication I take from the sentence above. Or do you think the writer transformed some poll result into an attention grabbing headline that mirrors his own view? My hunch is the latter, what do you think? The question might have been "Are you opposed to military operations designed to root out insurgents a la Fallujah?, etc.?" and that would get (perhaps) an 82% opposed rating. Would have been better journalism if the writer had given us the actual question. I find it hard to believe that the Kurds want an immediate coalition withdrawal followed by an anarchic free for all. I think they are 20% of the population right there.... I mean, given that most of the autrocities appear to be committed by Sunni (~15% of the population), do you think that most Kurds, Shias and whomever else is in Iraq also want an immediate coalition troop withdrawal?

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