Interesting poll by you.gov (their site is down, and I can’t get all the results, so all I can see is this excerpt):
A majority of Baghdad residents feel US and British troops should stay in Iraq for at least a year, according to the first attempt at an opinion poll.
The You.Gov poll results were released as news emerged that a ground-to-air missile was fired at a US military plane near Baghdad airport.
The poll said 31% wanted troops to stay “a few years”, while 25% said “about a year.”
Only 13% said they should leave now, while 20% said they should go “within 12 months”.
The survey also found that half thought the US-led coalition was right to invade.
Amusing- 50% of the invaded population feels the United States was right to INVADE. Compare that to the recent rhetoric of the left in America, where it appears that 100% of Democrats think we were wrong to invade.
(via Tacitus)
Jonas
It also said:
You.Gov said there was no certainty that the 798 respondents were a representative sample and that several interviews were conducted with gunfire in the background.
John Cole
Are you implying the interviews could have taken place in any m ajor city in the UNited States?
Dean
I find it interesting that polls conducted when Saddam was in power, w/ government-provided translators and security thugs around, were considered credible by the credulous, but more open polling is not.
And I”m not talking about just the 100% vote for Saddam, but the “gee, the population supports him, as these people we randomly picked and questioned confirm” type reports.
Where as the incredulity then, one wonders?
Brandon
Not all Democrats think that we were wrong to behave, just that we did it with the wrong commander in chief.
MommaBear
… just that we did it with the wrong commander in chief…
What the hell difference does it make who’s the CinC…loss of credit for doing the right thing…that’s nasty and pathetic.
MommaBear
… just that we did it with the wrong commander in chief…
What the hell difference does it make who’s the CinC…loss of credit for doing the right thing…that’s nasty and pathetic.
MommaBear
… just that we did it with the wrong commander in chief…
What the hell difference does it make who’s the CinC…loss of credit for doing the right thing…that’s nasty and pathetic.
Dean
You know, the folks who believed that we should have intervened in Kosovo, I think were willing to give Clinton credit, whether he was a Dem or a GOP guy.
The biggest criticisms in that case were SHOULD we go in at all, and WHEN should we have gone in.
The same applied to Operation Desert Fox and attacking AFghanistan and Sudan.
If Dems really are carping mostly b/c of WHO is Prez, then they truly are a pathetic bunch.
Aakash
Speaking of public opinion polls, I recently updated one of my previous blog entries with the recent Gallup poll results on the issue of American attitudes towards the war in Iraq. It was great to see that, according to the figures, only 10% of Americans subscribe to the flawed, left-wing argument in favor of this war, something that not even President Bush and his spokespersons are relying on, and something that has been rebuked by war supporters such as Kate O’Beirne, Ann Coulter, George Will, and many others…, as well as some pro-war bloggers such as Josh Claybourn and others. Ten percent of the American public (18% of 56%) is not that many, but perhaps, as things wear on and more time passes, it will be even less than that.
Sean
I didn’t realize that 394 residents of Baghdad equaled “50% of the invaded population.” If that’s so, we really shouldn’t be having any trouble at all over there.
HH
The illogic is just breathtaking…