EVERYONE AGREES?

I caught this on Face the Nation yesterday morning. Some reporterette from Baghdad was pontificating on the status of our troops in Iraq. This statement caught my attention: "Everyone agrees, the sight of American troops on the Iraqi streets makes everybody mad." That, my friends, is pure bullsqueeze. I've talked to far too many American servicemen in the past few weeks at airports across our country. The common theme in those discussions is that the media isn't giving the true picture to the people of this country, and that American troops are generally loved and admired by Iraqis.

"Everyone agrees" ...... Yeah, right.

LOOTING

The US is still an occupying force in Iraq..
It remains a war zone..
Now in it's 3rd year..

1st(and MOST important)
How many dead or dismembered ?

2nd - How much US tapayer monies spent? (consider the growing deficit)

Final- How much is too much and when is enough enough ?:hitout:

jim's op/ed (http://opinionsandreasons.blogspot.com/)

Originally posted by gmsisko1
EVERYONE AGREES?
.......That, my friends, is pure bullsqueeze..........American troops are generally loved and admired by Iraqis.

To reiterate your closing remark --- "Yeah, right."

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1833

Ignoring Iraqi Opinion in the Name of Democracy

6/2/04

Two important scientific polls of Iraqi opinion have been published...

A Gallup poll conducted mostly in late March-- before the recent sieges of Fallujah and Najaf-- showed that "a solid majority support an immediate military pullout." (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-28-poll-cover_x.htm).

Fifty-seven percent said the coalition should "leave immediately" rather than "stay longer" (36 percent).

Among respondents in Shi'ite and Sunni Arab areas-- that is, leaving out Kurdish respondents-- the numbers favoring an immediate pullout were even higher: 61 percent to 30 percent among Shi'ites and 65 percent to 27 percent among Sunnis. In Baghdad, where U.S. forces are concentrated, the numbers were highest of all: 75 percent favored an immediate pullout, with only 21 percent opposed.

Overall, 55 percent of Shi'ites and 57 percent of Sunnis said attacks against coalition forces were at least sometimes justified, while the proportion of Baghdadis who believe this has risen to 67 percent, up from 36 percent the last time Gallup asked them this question a year ago.

Meanwhile, according to a new poll from the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies, which is partly funded by the State Department and has coordinated its work with the Coalition Provisional Authority, more than half of all Iraqis-- including the Kurds-- want an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces, up from 17 percent last October. The same poll found that 68 percent of Iraqis support Moqtada al-Sadr, including a third who say they "strongly support" him (Financial Times, 5/20/04; Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/9/04).

The polls cited above are the only scientific measures of recent Iraqi opinion in existence.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1833

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Despite the polling data that proves that Iraqis want U.S. troops out, people continue making claims, unsupported by real evidence, that the majority of Iraqis "love and admire" the American troops.