OrnotBitwise
Watermelon
Before someone asks, no, I do not think that the results of one poll -- or two polls, in this instance -- "prove" that we should immediately leave Iraq. What I want to point out is that those who assert that we are making progress in Iraq and those who believe that there is some reasonable hope of our "winning" -- whatever the hell that means -- in Iraq are increasingly short of real evidence to back up their claims.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...27/MNGPOLDIHT1.DTL&hw=iraq+poll&sn=003&sc=817(09-27) 04:00 PDT Baghdad -- A strong majority of Iraqis want U.S.-led military forces to immediately withdraw from the country, saying their swift departure would make Iraq more secure and decrease sectarian violence, according to new polls by the State Department and independent researchers. In Baghdad, for example, nearly three-quarters of residents polled said they would feel safer if U.S. and other foreign forces left Iraq, with 65 percent of those asked favoring an immediate pullout, according to polling results obtained by the Washington Post.
Another new poll, scheduled to be released today by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, found that 71 percent of Iraqis questioned want the Iraqi government to ask foreign forces to depart within a year. By large margins, though, Iraqis believe the U.S. government would refuse the request, with 77 percent of those polled saying the United States intends to keep permanent military bases in the country.