82 percent of Iraqis “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops
from the UK Sunday Telegraph via CommonDreams:
• 82 per cent are “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops;
• less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;
• 67 per cent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation;
• 43 per cent of Iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened;
• 72 per cent do not have confidence in the multi-national forces.
The opinion poll, carried out in August, also debunks claims by both the US and British governments that the general well-being of the average Iraqi is improving in post-Saddam Iraq.
Doesn’t this say it all:
82 per cent are “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops
The Iraqi people do not want our troops there, period.
… and unless someone prints this out and takes it to every single member of Congress, they’ll probably never hear about it. Another thing that was revealed by Galloway’s testimony (see here) is that Congress is shielded from important news, several Senators said they had not heard about the missing $9 billion (revealed Jan ‘05) until Galloway mentioned it in his testimony (May ‘05).
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October 24th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Rep Nadler calls for Fitzgerald to expand leak into whether Bush/Cheney Deliberately misled Public and Congress about the war.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8927
November 30th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
I was just curious as to when these polls were taken, where, and by whom.
December 8th, 2005 at 10:22 am
the link:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1023-01.htm
The opinion poll, carried out in August… was a secret poll conducted by the UK Ministry of Defense- the results were leaked to the UK Telegraph.