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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (760488)3/21/2007 7:23:48 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: "... Yet 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."

"Not surprisingly, the divisions in Iraqi society were reflected in statistics — Sunnis were more likely to back the previous Ba’athist regime (51%) while the Shi’ites (66%) preferred the Maliki government."

Interesting.

So, '49%' of respondents prefer the current Shiite government to Saddam's reign.

While '42%' either say they were better off under Saddam, or that Saddam and Maliki are equally bad....

(While 9% would not answer....)

Given that approximately 60% of the population in Iraq is Shia, I'd say that poll came out pretty much as I would have expected it to....
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