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To: Win Smith who wrote (102595)	6/24/2003 1:16:55 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

REBUILDING IRAQ Poll Shows Iraqis Want American Troops to Stay By Dale Hurd CBN News Sr. Reporter June 20, 2003 CBN.com – The guerrilla war against American forces in Iraq continued today, with an attack against a power plant. But despite the ongoing attacks on Americans, a new poll shows the overwhelming majority of people in Baghdad want the U.S. forces to stay. The attack knocked out one of two transformers at the power plant, which provides nearly half the electricity to the city of Fallujah. It was the fourth attack in 24 hours and the latest in what has become a fairly effective guerrilla war against the American military presence. About a dozen U.S. servicemen have been killed by hostile fire in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1st. And the spiraling attacks have been used by critics of the president to prove that American forces are not welcome in Iraq. But a new survey of Iraqis shatters that view. CBS reports the first ever public opinion poll in Iraq shows that almost two-thirds (65%) of Baghdad residents say they want the U.S. military to stay until Iraq is stable and secure; only 17 percent want American soldiers out now. One reason Iraqis want Americans to stay is that Saddam Hussein is believed to l be alive and inside Iraq. The New York Times reports newly intercepted communications among fugitive members of the Saddam Fedayeen and the Iraqi intelligence service have included discussions indicating the former Iraqi dictator is alive. The Times says new operations in the hunt for Saddam are under way, led by a secret military group that includes elite Army and Navy special forces, along with the CIA. cbn.com

To: Win Smith who wrote (102595)	6/24/2003 1:20:38 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

From The Hindu: ...The first question we asked was about the U.S. claim that American troops entered Iraq and fought a war to remove Saddam Hussein. We asked the people of Baghdad their view on whether America did the right thing or the wrong thing by entering Iraq? The results, shown in table one, show that a majority of people, 54 per cent, believe that America did the right thing. Only 32 percent of the Iraqis in the sample believe that the American invasion was wrong. A more detailed analysis shows that the older (over 40 years old) Iraqis tend to be more pro-American and anti-Saddam Hussein. The next questions asked was "should the Americans now stay on and help re-build Iraq, or should they go back now?" The answer shows (see table 2) that a majority of Iraqis, 52 per cent, want the Americans to go back now while 43 per cent want the Americans to stay on. The narrow gap between the two views, 52 per cent vs. 43 per cent, is narrower than many reports coming out of Baghdad suggest and indicates that a sizable number of Iraqis want the Americans to stay on. And clearly, while a large per cent of Muslims want the Americans to stay on, many more Christians in Baghdad want an American presence in Baghdad to help rebuild the devastated country.... hinduonnet.com

To: Win Smith who wrote (102595)	6/24/2003 1:24:33 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Iraq's 1st Public Poll Backs U.S. June 19, 2003 (CBS/AP) Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. military ambulance in Iraq on Thursday, killing one U.S. soldier and injuring two others, the military said. It was the fourth attack in 24 hours on Americans in Iraq, and the third with deadly results either for Americans or Iraqis. The Pentagon has been playing down the attacks, saying they don't indicate widespread resentment on the part of the Iraqi people. Now, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, Iraq's first-ever public opinion poll seems to back that up. Sixty-five percent of Iraqis polled in Baghdad claimed they want the U.S. military to stay until Iraq is stable and secure; only 17 percent want American soldiers out now. But some U.S. lawmakers are increasingly uneasy about the daily killings of soldiers, the stretching thin of troop forces, excessive demands on reservists and the costs of the war.... cbsnews.com

To: Win Smith who wrote (102595)	6/24/2003 2:54:51 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There you go with those polls again. And of course one message wouldn't be sufficiently gaseous for the neocon way. They mean what you want them to mean; given the usual carpage from the righteous right about techniques when polls turn out the wrong way, you got to wonder how scientific a poll in a country with extremely marginal civil order in place is. Somehow, I doubt that telephone connectivity covers anything much like a random sampling area, but who can say?