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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (471729)	10/6/2003 10:43:17 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 769670

Poll showed most Iraqis think the hardships they now endure are worth being rid of Saddam. The same poll showed Iraqis do not believe the US occupation is benevolent. I never said anything countering the first statement. The second statement supports what I have said, namely, that Iraqis don't seem to feel Americans are on their side. Here are the poll results: iht.com After five months of foreign military occupation and the removal of Saddam Hussein, nearly two-thirds of Baghdad residents say the removal of the Iraqi dictator has been worth the hardships they have been forced to endure, a new Gallup poll shows. Despite the systemic collapse of government and civic institutions, a crime wave of looting and violence and shortages of water and electricity, 67 percent of 1,178 Iraqis told a Gallup survey team that within five years, their lives will be better than before the U.S.-led invasion. Only eight percent of those queried said they believed their lives would be worse off as a result of the military campaign to remove Saddam and his Baath Party leadership. The survey, which was conducted in late August and early September, cut across the ethnically diverse landscape of the capital. The results revealed that Iraqis in the capital still maintain a great deal of skepticism about the motives of the United States and Britain, and residents said they hold France and its president, Jacques Chirac, in higher regard than President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Chirac's rating was 42 percent favorable to Bush's 29 percent and Blair's 20 percent.