Re: OT - Coulter

Jerry McGeorge wrote in  rec.arts.movies.current-films :
> > I believe most Iraqis did exactly that and still feel that way. If you
> took a poll and asked the average Iraqi man in the street if he'd rather the
> U.S. left immediately and have Saddam and his regime restored to full power,
> what do you suppose he would say?>
> 
> The leftists and their press stooges conveniently ignore the Iraqi polls,
> which indicate nearly 70% fully support the US intervention and Saddam's
> ouster. Why do they ignore & suppress positive news from Iraq? Because it
> destroys their hopes of ever regaining power in the USA. The pacifist left
> has become politically insignificant.
> 
> 
> 

The actual numbers: 


http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17021

Over 55 percent give a negative rating to "how the U.S. military is dealing with 
Iraqi civilians. Only 20 percent gave the U.S. military a positive rating. 



By a margin of 57 percent to 38.5 percent, Iraqis indicate they would support "Arab 
forces" providing security in their country. 



When asked how they would describe the attacks on the U.S. military, 49 percent 
described them as "resistance operations." Only 29 percent saw them as attacks by 
"Ba'ath loyalists." 



When asked whom they preferred to "provide security and restore order in their 
country, only 6.5 percent said the United States, while 27 percent said the U.S. and 
the UN together, 14.5 percent preferred only the UN, and the largest group, 45 
percent, said they would prefer the "Iraqi military" to do the job alone.

"Facts are stupid things"- Ronald Reagan


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