[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?

[lonestar67]

The original survey article is worth a look if you are curious:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1530526.ece

The good news is that it demonstrates the emergence of politics over tribalism. Malikis approval had been around 29% and has moved up to around 50% because of increased security.

Understand that we are trying to emerge from American mythology that Iraqis only think in relation to their ethnic orientation. That is certainly significant but we must hope and strive for politically oriented decisionmaking.

[MNJohnnie]

Yet 49 percent of those questioned preferred life under Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, to living under Saddam. Only 26 percent said things had been better in Saddam's era, while 16 percent said the two leaders were as bad as each other and the rest did not know or refused to answer

And what did that 26% DO in Saddam regime?

[MNJohnnie]

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