Posted on 12/22/2004 7:48:51 PM PST by glorgau
The poll of nearly 2,200 people across most of Iraq found a resilient citizenry modestly hopeful that the Jan. 30 elections will improve life. Iraqis said pocketbook issues such as unemployment and health care are more pressing than the bloody insurgency that claims Iraqi and U.S. lives virtually every day.
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Me.
Merry Christmas and Prayers to Our Troops
This will be front page NY Times, right pinchy?
Good news bump.
"...Iraqis said pocketbook issues such as unemployment and health care are more pressing than the bloody insurgency..."
"...The poll, conducted Nov. 24 to Dec. 5, found improvements over the last two months in Iraqis' feelings about the country's direction..."
I like the way the writer kept injecting their own opinion in the course of reporting. The ghouls just can't take it when there's good news.
Shhhh. Don't tell Dan Rather.
My thought exactly!
Who'da thunk it?
BUMP!
Good post. Thanks.
About this.......
Significantly fewer Iraqis living in predominantly Sunni Muslim areas said they intend to vote. The finding underlines growing concern that the elections will be seen as legitimate by Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims but rejected by minority Sunnis, who monopolized political power under dictator Saddam Hussein.
If the Sunni population doesn't want to participate then how in the world can they claim it isn't legimate?
What idiots.
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