[Names Ash Housewares]

They must not watch CNN.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Civil war" can mean many things, but clearly this is not a full-scale civil war such as we had here 150 years ago. It is basically a terrorist campaign led by a couple of thousand insurgents, with reprisals conducted by some militant groups on the other side. The general public is caught in the middle.

[bikerman]

Lies,Lies all Lies the drive by media knows the real truth.(not)

[MNJohnnie]

And what did that 27% do under Saddam?

Rape room attendant? Torture Chamber staffer? Feed the political dissident feet 1st into the plastic shredder expert??

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

from further down the article:

"Yet 49 percent of those questioned preferred life under Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, to living under Saddam."

I don't know what to make of this one, since 60(?)% of Iraq is shi'ite......does this mean that 1/6th of shi'ites preferred saddam to maliki? Or that the polling was skewed away from a proportional sampling according to the overall demographics?

[coloradan]

So what if it were in a civil war? Rwanda was in a civil war, and if we had intervened we could have maybe saved about a million lives. FWIW Clintoon knew about it and did nothing.

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting the good news!

ORB interviewed a nationally representative sample of 5,019 Iraqi adults between February 10-22. The margin of error was +/- 1.4 percent

I'd bet that even more Iraqis are happy this month.