New Survey: Iraqis Want a Speedy U.S. Exit -- and Back Attacks on Our Forces

[babylonsister]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=8440

November 21st, 2006 7:40 pm

New Survey: Iraqis Want a Speedy U.S. Exit -- and Back Attacks on Our Forces
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher

NEW YORK Past surveys have hinted at this result, but a new poll in Iraq makes it more stark than ever: the Iraqi people want the U.S. to exit their country. And most Iraqis now approve of attacks on U.S. forces, even though 94% express disapproval of al-Qaeda.

At one time, this was primarily a call by the Sunni minority, but now the Shiites have also come around to this view. The survey by much-respected World Public Opinion (WPO), taken in September, found that 74% of Shiites and 91% of Sunnis in Iraq want us to leave within a year. The number of Shiites making this call in Baghdad, where the U.S. may send more troops to bring order, is even higher (80%). In contrast, earlier this year, 57% of this same group backed an "open-ended" U.S. stay.

By a wide margin, both groups believe U.S. forces are provoking more violence than they're preventing -- and that day-to-day security would improve if we left.

Support for attacks on U.S. forces now commands majority support among both Shiites and Sunnis. The report states: "Support for attacks on U.S.-led forces has grown to a majority position—now six in ten. Support appears to be related to widespread perception, held by all ethnic groups, that the U.S. government plans to have permanent military bases in Iraq and would not withdraw its forces from Iraq even if the Iraqi government asked it to. If the U.S. were to commit to withdraw, more than half of those who approve of attacks on US troops say that their support for attacks would diminish."

The backing for attacks on our forces has jumped to 61% from 47% in January.

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[joemurphy]

1. OK, let's go. n/t

[arewenotdemo]

2. This is why we can't have a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq

Forget about the Iranians, a timetable would only further "embolden" the Iraqis!

:sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

3. Yep, while our soldiers are being used as target practice. nt

[1932]

7. The other side of the "we can't embolden them" argument is that we must crush

any hope they have of controlling their own destinies. It's really annoying to think that the project there is that we have to overwhelm them to the degree that they're afraid to ever cross the US.

I don't know any relationship, whether between nations or between individuals, where that kind of strategy works out well in the long run.

[aquart]

4. Did someone really think they'd want us to stay? Yeeks.

[LynnTheDem]

10. Yep.

Including some DUers.

Now that really makes me say YEEKS.

[1932]

5. Reading that makes me think what idiots all these American politicians are who

say we can't leave now.

If Iraqis don't want our army there, our army shouldn't be there.

[badgervan]

6. Great

"Mission Accomplished", oh great Decider. Now let's get the hell out of the entire middle east and let them blow each other up without our folks in the middle of an unwinnable tribal/religious feud that goes back centuries. Next time you decide to invade a foreign country, oh great ennunciator, read a history book or two first - or at least have someone read it to you.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Gee...same thing the old survey said.

And the old survey before that. And the one before that. And the one before that.

You mean finally someone is listening to the people whose country we invaded & occupied in a hitleresque "supreme crime" war of choice aggression?

[LynnTheDem]

9. Oops sorry, we forgot!

"The importance of oil in the region "means that it would be entirely unacceptable for the United States to consider withdrawal from Iraq, no matter how insecure the environment".

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20794524-5006506,00.html

Blood for oil; it's the New American Way.