First Iraqi Poll a Surprise: Most Support US (ignore the media)

American Enterprise Institute ^

[GulliverSwift]

. Younger adults are especially favorable toward the U.S., and Shiites are more admiring than Sunnis. Interestingly, Iraqi Shiites, coreligionists with Iranians, do not admire Iran's Islamist government; the U.S. is six times as popular with them as a model for governance.

The media really p(*&es me off. They and the Demoncrats want Iraq to look as bad as possible, and they run the very real risk of pulling off a coup in America if they get away with this persistent, fabricated negativism.

If this poll were common knowledge, there's no way they nine dwarfs at the democrap debate could get away with what they said about Bush's handling of Iraq. But then again, who decides if something becomes common knowledge?

"How would you say things are going for the U.S. in its efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq? Would you say things are going very well, somewhat well, somewhat badly, or very badly?"
		Very Well	Somewhat Well	Somewhat Badly	Very Badly	Don't Know
		%	%	%	%	%
	8/26-28/03	5	46	31	16	2
	8/11-12/03	6	47	28	13	6
	7/03	6	54	25	11	4
	5/03	11	61	19	5	4
						.
This poll from pollingreport.com shows a steady decline in public opinion about what's going on in Iraq. The media's working hard, and they're succeeding.

[ladtx]

Many of us here on FR have known for a while that the Iraqii's appreciate us being there thought emails from "the front lines". If we have known it so has the "elite media", they just refuse to publicize it. Maybe now it will get some traction.

[ladtx]

"thought emails" should be "through emails"

[SierraWasp]

How come I haven't seen THIS before???

[TheDon]

Thanks for the post. It confirms what most sane people think is going on in Iraq.

[GulliverSwift]

"We will not forget it was the U.S. soldiers who liberated us from Saddam," said Abid Ali, an auto repair shop owner in Sadr City last month--and our research shows that he's not unrepresentative.

Of course, when the media interviews someone, they don't care if it's representative of the populace or not. They try to find some idiot who says, "I hate America. Look what they have done. Under Saddam, I made a billion dinares a week. Now I have nothing. Death to America."

Of course, cynical Iraqis know that they can get on TV if they say outlandish things.

[GulliverSwift]

Take a wild guess. Something to do with ABCBSNBCNNMSNBC Washington Potty, New Dork Times, and the Associated P**ss.

[GulliverSwift]

bump. I'm gonna keep bumping this until everybody gets to see it.

[jae471]

Many of us here on FR have known for a while that the Iraqii's appreciate us being there thought emails from "the front lines".

Yup. I had a friend at the battle of Al-Nasiriyah. He said the Iraqis thought they were now the 51st state, and they were quite happy about it.

[GulliverSwift]

The tenth poll? How could the media keep ten polls secret? I've never heard of them.

[ZGuy]

This report is being widely read. It was published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal according to aei.org.

[bart99]

Can you give me the url for this article.......

I think I'll send it to Drudge.

Thanks.

[GulliverSwift]

"That's just a right-wing editorial page. We're not going to print anything from there!"

[GulliverSwift]

It's right there if you click on the link. He's been pretty liberal lately, I don't know if he wants to run it, he loves disasters. Oh well, he might have some conservativness in him still. He's been jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon as of late.

[GulliverSwift]

But yeah, I missed the Wall Street Journal part. Hopefully the anti-Iraq obsession will die down now that Sept 11 anniversary has happened. Each summer the media gets on a role with the Bush bashing, and it picks up steam until the fall stories come out and change the subject.

Last year the media was obsessing about corporate corruption. I don't think they really cared, they just wanted Bush to look bad with Enron. That picked up steam, and the media were able to sway public opinion, but then the Washington sniper thing happened, as well as the annivesary of Sep. 11.

[tazman3]

ping

[kayak]

Ping Lists, anyone? Let's get this news spread across FR ... and, hopefully, eventually in the media. (I know .. I know ..... I'm being wildly optimistic about the media.)

[GulliverSwift]

Is there an Iraq ping list?

[JohnHuang2]

Mega ping comin' up ;-)