BBC commissioned poll in Iraq
The poll suggests that Iraqis are happier than they were before the invasion, optimistic about the future and opposed to violence.
It suggests that the reporting of the daily attacks on the occupying forces in Iraq could be obscuring another picture.
Seventy percent said that things were going well or quite well in their lives, while only 29% felt things were bad.
And 56% said that things were better now than they were before the war.
Almost half (49%) believed the invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition was right, although 41% felt that the invasion “humiliated Iraq”.
More than three quarters (79%) want Iraq to remain united, and only 20% want it to become an Islamic state.
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CTV/Globe and Mail/Ipsos Reid poll of Canadians
Prime Minster Paul Martin … reiterated his support of Canada’s decision not to send troops to Iraq, a view shared by 74 per cent of Canadians in a new CTV/Globe and Mail/Ipsos Reid poll.
63 per cent of Canadians believe the United States made a mistake in going to war in Iraq.That’s a dramatic jump of 16 points since December.
Other findings of the poll:
67 per cent agree that U.S. President George Bush knowingly lied to the world in order to justify his war with Iraq.
61 percent agree “true democracy will never come to the region,” despite all the U.S. efforts.
69 per cent�agree that because of what has happened, the U.S. “will learn a valuable lesson” that it is better for them to work with countries around the world rather than to act on their own in issues of world crisis.
54 per cent disagree that because of what happened on Sept. 11 2001, the U.S. is justified in any action it takes to protect itself from future terrorist attacks.
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What do the Iraqis know that Canadians don’t?
The truth?
The Canadian poll was blasting all over the airwaves today. A representative from Ipsos-Reid was interviewed on local talk radio – and it was most enlightening. In discussing the poll results there was no qualification offered for the belief that “Bush lied”, as in pointing out that no one has any evidence that this is true. He offered that the poll results indicated that Chretien had chosen the correct position regarding Iraq – as though popular opinion should guide national security policy.
Very revealing. I wonder how the questions were worded. Check the second last paragraph, for example – the learned a valuable lesson result.
‘humiliation’
they seem pre-occupied with humiliation. coming from a culture that glorifies humiliation, i dont get it.
The word would have been used first by the pollsters.
I was polled last summer. There had been a government sponsored “feel good” ad campaign promoting the province as a place to live and do business, just before a provincial election. They were featuring small business people in the spots.
The questions were hilarious and every single one engineered to get a postive response by asking questions about the blatantly obvious.
Agree or disagree:
“It is possible for a woman to establish a small business in Saskatchewan.”
“Agriculture is an important part of Saskatchewans economy”.
“Many technological innovations have been developed in Saskatchewan”.
The poll was designed to justify the tax dollars spent to convince us to re-elect the government. By asking obvious questions, they could prove how effective it was at getting the information out.
I finally stopped the interviewer and told him exactly that – and how if it weren’t for US and out of province clientelle, I’d have been forced to leave the province 5 years ago, and that insulting my intelligence wasn’t helping matters.
I could hear him typing furiously… heh
in fact if you look further into the poll, 70% of the kurds thing we should have invaded iraq, while only about 40% of iraqi arabs think it was a good idea-add em up and you het some nice propaganda
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
eh…bush did lie…or maybe as a puppet president hew just doesnt really quite know whats going on..its notable that since we invaded iraq, he has twice stated on tv that we invaded because sadam wouldnt leyt the UN weapons inspectors in…which is of course not what happened at all…a strange thing for the president to say-then theirs all that yellow cake from niger business…kind of lied there, doncha think? the funny thing is, iraq had all kinds of legally obtained yellow cake which we somehow failed to secure in the days after bagdad failed-some of it was later looted because no one really cared about it-iraq was completely uinable to make fissionable materials from yellow cake,unlike our buddies the pakistani’s who have been telling the koreans how to do it for years,and selling real live centerfuge equipment all over the place…when are we invading pakistan again? jezzus kate, go read a book