[george76]

[george76]

[lonestar67]

The clincher in this article is:

Iraqis overall have a positive view of the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Asked, “Thinking about any hardships you might have suffered since the US-Britain invasion, do you personally think that ousting Saddam Hussein was worth it or not?” 77% say it was worth it, while 22% say it was not.

Gallup asked the same question in April 2004. At that time, 61% said that it was worth it and 28% said that it was not.


This is a devastating repudiation of the completely bogus coverage we are receiving from American and European news organizatons. 77 percent says it was worth it and that number has increased dramatically from less than a year ago.

At some point, this pathological bubble over Iraq will burst.

[Ma3lst0rm]

You wouldn't know this from the way they are "just reporting the news straight from the Iraqi hotel wet bar". It would also be nice if the Kurds who are Sunnis would be identified as such instead of just those Sunnis in the "Sunni Triangle". The Press should be ashamed the way they elevate a handful of Sader's cronies or a bunch of Bathists as if they are representative of the majority of Iraqis.

[God luvs America]

since the lame stream media is always interested in public opinion polls I betcha this is front page news tomorrow!!

[stm]

The Sunni take the Koran literally and consider the Shia to be heretics. The Shia, on the other hand, are more interpretive of the Koran and see the Sunni as fanatics. There is very little meeting of the minds between them. Hoo-sain is a Sunni and the "Sunni triangle", the area NW of Baghdad is a hotbed of insurgence. Tikrit is Hoo-sain's birthplace so there is a lot of opposition there.

[The Great RJ]

The Iraqis obviously aren't watching CNN and finding out the real truth that their country is in a bloody civil war and all US efforts are hopeless failures. After all the biased CNN reporters ensconced in Baghdad luxury hotels really know what is going on and stories to the contrary told by Iraqis themselves are not to be believed.

[pleikumud]

So the Sunnis are something like the Democrats here?

[wallcrawlr]

great news.

thanks for posting

[Aquinasfan]

Ninety-eight percent of Shia and 91% of Kurds say the hardships were worth it, while 83% of Sunnis say they were not.

In comparison with the Shiites, the Sunnis are the bad guys. They're more fundamentalist than the Shiites. And since they're in the minority, this can be considered good news. But the polarization of the two sides doesn't bode well for national unity.

[summer]

Thanks for posting this good news.

There also seems to be a little matter of WMD's actually having been in Iraq (so, GW was correct), according to this guy mentioned here. I heard him speak about this last night on the Daily Show in a recent repeat episode.

[SmoothTalker]

I'm sure this will be on the front page of todays New York Slimes and Washington Compost.

[MNJohnnie]

Well gee the former executioners and staffers of the Rape Rooms and Prisons don't like the changes in Iraq. Imagine that.

[GodfearingTexan]

this is extremely telling. thank you for posting it.

[DannyTN]

So are iraqi's subject to the same problems as the Afghanistan constitution? Is sharia law supreme even over universal human rights?

[Rabid Dog]

Ping

[Ptarmigan]

The legacy media is going to have a bad day. Oh well for them.