wouldn't surprise me in the least if the nySLIMES printed something like that for real.
Posted on 08/23/2006 2:41:31 PM PDT by NYTexan
The latest poll of al Qaeda members worldwide shows that 91 percent see no link between the global fight against Islamic terrorists and the ongoing U.S. effort to establish a free and democratic Iraq.
The results follow release of a New York Times/CBS News poll showing 51 percent of Americans also fail to see the connection.
“The al Qaeda public is simply not buying President Bush’s argument that a free Iraq will make the world more secure by denying safe-haven to terrorists,” said an unnamed spokesman for al-Razmuhsan, the polling division of al-Jazeera. “Our survey shows that the average al Qaeda man on the street is much like the average American. He has no fear that Islamic fascists plan to use Iraq as a base from which to fight their jihad to establish a global Muslim caliphate.”
In other results that parallel U.S. public opinion, the poll shows that the overwhelming majority of al Qaeda members think that “planting the seeds of democracy in the Arab world” is not worth the cost in American lives and money, and most believe that a hasty retreat of American forces will not embolden the terrorists.
The al-Razmuhsan poll was conducted over the past three weeks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia, Great Britain, Russia, France and the U.S., by contacting al Qaeda cell leaders via satellite phone or donkey courier.
Pinging the usual suspects!
(anyone wanting on or off the satire ping list, let me know!)
Perhaps some multi-million dollar study into the legitmacy of these poll results would be in order. :)
...waiting for the first responder to read only the title.
I don't trust polls... how was the question worded? what is the margin of error? was the sampling of... say... american university professors overweighted?
How's that?
Since you didn't have a sarcasm tag in your post I suggest you read the article and the source of it again.
I thought the reference to professors was good enough that a /s tag was unwarrented.
Just checkin'
Scrappleface my ass, this poll was commissioned by Bill Keller himself! LOL
Let's all try to stay clam.
All DUmmies, I am sure!
good one
I guess I feel the MSM is so bad I nearly believed it until I saw the Scappleface.
LOL... good stuff!
wouldn't surprise me in the least if the nySLIMES printed something like that for real.
IAN SCHWARTZ has the video of Christopher Hitchens berating Ron Reagan on MSNBC.
here's a transcript of the heart of Hitchen's rant:Excuse me. When I went to interview Abu Nidal, then the most wanted terrorist in the world, in Baghdad, he was operating out of an Iraqi government office. He was an arm of the Iraqi State, while being the most wanted man in the world. The same is true of the shelter and safe house offered by the Iraqi government, to the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer, and to Mr. Yasin, who mixed the chemicals for the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. How can you know so little about this, and be occupying a chair at the time that you do?
Obviously, Ron doesn't want to hear things that might challenge his world view.
How could Hitch be so insensitive?
http://www.indepundit.com/archive2/2005/07/in_case_you_mis.html
LOL!!!
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