I will be the first to admit I do not understand why people like Oliver and Andrew Sullivan are surprised by this poll question:
A staggering 92 percent view the Coalition forces as “occupiers” as opposed to 2 percent who consider them “liberators.”
Shouldn’t 100% of them view as us occupiers? That is what we are, isn’t it? And the idea is to end the occupation as soon as possible.
Also, if they would read the actual polls, the would learn some interesting things. For example, Oliver wrote:
In other words… cut and run, leave Iraq to the whims of Sadr and Sistani… creating an Iranian style theocracy that does nothing to help the spread of democracy or curb middle eastern terror.
Apparently he read nothing but the Yahoo! news piece, because the actual poll itself states:
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