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To: tejek who wrote (56170)	3/19/2007 1:16:09 AM
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Ah, the old but often used MSM trick of cherry picking a few useful idiots to parrot left wing propaganda & make it a headline that makes it appear the whole country feels that way. Then there's reality. You know the one the left wing MSM refuses to report to Americans. ** Iraqis ask: Civil war, what civil war? Call it dueling polls. First, the USA Today/Gallup poll found 76% of Americans believe there is a civil war in Iraq. Next, an Opinion Research Business poll found that 61% of Iraqis say there is NO CIVIL WAR. But what do those Iraqis know? They only live there, while Americans watch this stuff on TV. Well, not actually watch this stuff. Jon Stewart and Jay Leno make jokes about it all the time so it must be true. Lifting from Marie Colvin’s report in the Sunday Times of London: 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. Well, so much for Saddam's popularity. Didn’t he get 100% of the vote in 2002?** But this was the big news: Another surprise was that only 27% believed they were caught up in a civil war. Again, that number divided along religious lines, with 41% of Sunnis believing Iraq was in a civil war, compared with only 15% of Shi’ites. Not even a majority of the Sunnis say it is a civil war. I guess the American leftist media forgot to tell the Iraqis that Iraq is having a civil war. Either that or Iraqis are all watching Fox. blogs.dailymail.com

To: tejek who wrote (56170)	3/19/2007 4:28:22 AM
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Pelosi: Iraqi Optimism Highlights Bush Surge Failure Satire from ScrappleFace By Scott Ott on Global News (2007-03-18) — A new poll shows Iraqis are “irrationally optimistic, misguided in their support of the new government and in denial about the civil war raging in their country,” according to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “These are just a few of the devastating consequences of the Bush surge in Iraq,” said Rep. Pelosi, D-CA, “and I fear that we’re seeing only the tip of iceberg.” The survey of 5,019 Iraqis, published today, showed that despite almost daily car bombings and sectarian tensions, 49 percent prefer the government of Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki to the more stable regime of the late President Saddam Hussein. Only 26 percent said things had been better under Mr. Hussein. “Clearly these people are out of touch with the reality on the ground in Iraq,” said Mrs. Pelosi in an interview at her San Francisco office. “If they had read the New York Times or watched CNN, they would never draw these ridiculous conclusions.” The poll showed that only 27 percent of Iraqis believe the country is embroiled in a civil war. “As this poll shows, the ravages of civil war have taken their toll,” Rep. Pelosi said. “The Iraqi people are in deep denial. We need to reverse course now before things get much worse and they start thinking that their country can become a bastion of freedom and democracy in the heart of the totalitarian Arab world.” scrappleface.com