Posted on 05/22/2004 9:18:04 AM PDT by lizol
Poles want Polish soldiers to come back from Iraq Print version
According to the latest opinion poll by CBOS, 74 percent of Poles are against Polish participation in the stabilization operation in Iraq. Moreover, over half of the responders (53 percent) express their objection very firmly.
There is a noticeable increase in the number of Poles who do not approve of Polish armed forces stationing in Iraq. Since April it has risen by 8 percent. According to CBOS, the main reason for such tendency is death of two Polish journalists and two Polish soldiers in May, as well as information about abusing Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.
22 percent of Poles support the Polish presence in Iraq (decrease by 7 percent since April). The majority of responders want Polish soldiers to come back home as soon as possible.
The survey was conducted on 7-10 May 2004 on the representative group of 1006 Poles.
sigh.
PING
Yeah, but if radical Muslims attack their country, who are they going to look to for help? No one wants to do the dirty work but they all want to benefit from it. I'm sick of it. Isolationism is looking better and better.
Sorry!
Sad, but true
Cool down!
Try do make some opinion polls in UK and probably the results would be similary to ours. And nobody is talking about withdrawal there.
By the way. I'm a new one here, so could someone explain me what "PING" means?
"Cool down!"
You're forgetting what happened in Spain.
While VERY pro-Bush and approving of the current policies in the 'War on Terror' he sounded pessimistic about continued support (or at least a bit of polite silence) from the Europeans. His worst case scenario was for events like the leadership change in Spain happening in Britain (Blair) and Italy (Berlesconi). He spoke of a lot of anti-Bush sentiments being whipped up in the general public of many of the countrys over there while the leadership understands the importance of the War (even if they can't speak openly of their support). Lastly, he said a "clearer vision of where we're going" from the Bush administration would help.
Poland is not Spain.
Our politcal elites are quite uniform as far as Iraq is concerned - that we should stay there. The 2 exceptions are 2 very populist parties, but I don't think they'll be able to take over power in my country (at least I hope so).
Usually you see a "ping" message on a thread that's addressed to one or more people who so far aren't on the thread; the message shows up in the "New Messages to You". Its a way of alerting your friends, basically saying "hey, come look at this thread."
Where did You take Your poll from?
Don't think I'm some kind of leftist, I really support Polish presence in Iraq, but I can't oppose an impression, that actually such attitude seems to be less ad less often in Poland (having in mind what our media say).
"...74 percent of Poles are against Polish participation in the stabilization operation in Iraq. Moreover, over half of the responders (53 percent) express their objection very firmly".
"...22 percent of Poles support the Polish presence in Iraq (decrease by 7 percent since April)..."
In the article posted above I just can't find the fugures You've mentioned. Maybe I missed something (I must admit - I'm not very skilled in the internet).
(((Ping)))
...also BTTT = bump to the top
folks will BTTT a thread or Bump a thread to the top of the most recent comments list...this brings the thread into view, whereby others who may not have seen it, will then click on it and check it out.
Every time you post a response, that is in effect a Bump...
I'm going to have to ask my Polish pen-pal about this.
Yeah, a shool is definitely required here...
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