[EvilHomer]

Do I agree with the poll? Not really, but I'm probably more left-leaning than most on this forum, so I do think that it makes some points and is not an utterly fabricated statistic.

As for your point, soldiers are only exposed to public opinion when there's a company of soldiers marching through a town or village. Of course the common folk are going to wave and say how grateful they are when men armed with AK-47s are occupying their region. Many Iraqis hated Saddam, but don't find the unstable, violence-ridden and foreign-occupied postwar Iraq to be much of an improvement.

[andrew2527]

Whose occupying the region with AK-47's?

Many Iraqis hated Saddam, but don't find the unstable, violence-ridden and foreign-occupied postwar Iraq to be much of an improvement.

I'm sure that living under the fear of torture, imprisonment and death was just a little bit more inconveniencing than the situation today. Oh, here's where you say Abu Ghraib... Blah,Blah,Blah....

[SaxxonWoods]

"Iraqis hated Saddam, but don't find the unstable, violence-ridden and foreign-occupied postwar Iraq to be much of an improvement."


In a recent poll (heh), 69% of Iraqis said life was "good."
71% said they expected things to continue improving.
The Kurds made a beautiful TV commercial thanking the USA for bringing liberty, perhaps you missed it.

The USA is unpopular in the same way that a loving but strict parent is unpopular (Unpopular until needed). Those countries in the survey look at us and have an inferiority complex, and they have it for good reason.

Many of their risk-takers have come to the USA, draining those countries of leadership, leaving behind those who live to be nursed from cradle to grave, suckling at the government teat.