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To: PROLIFE who wrote (637792)	10/4/2004 7:22:24 PM
From: Enam Luf	Respond to of 769670

the stats on that site are not promising. i don't think the media is misrepresenting the situation. Besides, there is no information provided on the demographics of the polling sample or the methodology employed. Some of the poll results make no sense. For example: They use the following data to show that we are not forcing democracy on Iraqi's 78% of Iraqis want to vote for city council members 71% want to vote for their national legislators 66% want to vote for governor Other options like "appointed by religious clerics" or "appointed by the central government," barely break double digits. and yet another poll shows that only 36% want a Democratic government. In addition, the results within this poll are not shown as mutually exclusive choices, which makes the results meaningless. The poll data results for religious goverment choices are split up into moderate islamist (is there such a thing), shi'ia, and hardline islam to make it appear as if democracy is a more popular option. Otherwise Democracy would have been their second to last choice, only beating out the Pan-Arab gov't option. Other polls provide data showing that about 50% want us out of Iraq immediately, and 50% think that Iraq is on the right track (shocking, considering where they were coming from). Given that you only need a small, determined percentage of the population to turn to radical insurgency to give us significant problems, I don't see how this is encouraging. Data for the WMD question is dismissed entirely (this must have been a very scientific study). I have no doubt that a portion of Iraqi's want to live in a free, fair non religious society and it is a shame that we cannot do more for these people. However, given these kind of numbers, it pretty grim to me.