Poll Shows 99% of Iraqiis Don't Want U.S. There. [NPR Talk Show Host Claims]

Wisconsin Public Radio ^ | June 18, 2004 | StACase

[StACase]

My E-Mail to Dave Berkman of Wisconsin Public Radio:

During your 3:00 show this afternoon, I heard you claim 98% of Iraqiis don't view the US as liberating Iraq per some poll. It didn't ring very true to me. So I looked up recent polls on the internet, here's what I found so far.

Here's a more recent article:

I don't see your 98% figure.

Steve Case

Dave Berkman's Response:

I read this yesterday as I wrote something about it for my column. I read 4 papers a day, the JS, USA Today the Chi Trib & the NYTimes. It was in one of those (I daonlty recall which) -- but it was specific as to the CPA poll sponsorship and the 2%.

--Dave Berkman

[squarebarb]

the elite conspiracy to suck up taxpayers' money by academic appointments, grants, self- and mutual congratulation in review articles, positions on public radio, travel perks to the MLA and other important "conferences" which pays for drinking Heineken in little front rooms with bentwood rockers and avocado plants, bookshelves full of Noam Chomsky and books on the 'poetry' of Bob Dylan and other cheap imitations of Dylan Thomas('Baby, put on 'Diamonds and Rust')cute wooden carvings of imaginary animals from Mexico --

I have to stop myself.

[madison10]

Sample size.... 40 Iraqis.

Sample: Al Fedayeen

[okie01]

Dave Berkman, who ever he is, seems to be a very twisted creature with no understanding of human nature and no knowledge of history.

Thereby perfectly qualified to work for NPR.

[TommyDale]

The LA Times took a similar poll of 100 Iraqis, and found that 340% wanted the U.S. out of Iraq.

[jackbill]

Sorry, but NPR and a guy with the name of Berkman don't interest me whatsoever. No way, no how.

[Angry Republican]

98%!? You have got to be kidding me. I highly doubt that 98% of Iraquis want us gone.

[StACase]

Sorry, but NPR and a guy with the name of Berkman don't interest me whatsoever. No way, no how.

So why did you bother to post?

[Let's Roll]

And every day our brave troops have to listen to 10 hours of morale undermining NPR lies on Armed Forces radio, but one hour of Rush is too much.

Let the troops vote for the programs they want to hear - I think that's the least we can do for them. Surely, even the libs must think our guys deserve to hear what they want to, right? Right?

[StACase]

Adrian Kronauer doesn't live here any more.

[jonrick46]

This guy is spinning propaganda for the lefty media that he caters to. The people of Iraq want the Americans there and are joining the Iraqi army and police forces by the droves.
When their own innocent people are killed, they blame the terrorist (correct answer). When they can put up another satellite dish on the roof, the thank the Americans. When they can own a cell phone, that's progress.

[caltaxed]

Bill O'Reilly read the poll on his radio show a couple days ago. It was something like 70% didn't want us there, 28% wanted us to leave soon

This was a legitimate poll, unfortunately. We are loosing the PR battle big time.

[StACase]

This was a legitimate poll

Do you have the source for this "Ligitimate" poll?

[Marfoe]

Well we want to leave soon too.. in that we want the job to be done soon. I whole-heartedly support the war, and do not support leaving until Iraq is secure and democratic. Perhaps if the questions were framed differently, there would be a different response. For example:

Do you want the coalition to:

a) pull out immediately
b) pull out when requested by a stable, secure Iraqi government
c) stay indefinately

I would assume most would respond 'b', as would I. I also would hope 'b' would be soon.

[tbpiper]

So they asked 2 guys with their heads covered up and carrying RPGs. I believe the LA Times set up the poll.

[Calvin Locke]

Was it the same 99% that voted Saddam into office a few years back?

There aren't as many as there were before.

However, Saddam's handpicked man that certified the Saddam era elections is now working freelance for Reuters, BBC,
Al-Jazeera, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and um, NPR, as a pollster.

[xzins]

Poll Shows 99% of Iraqiis Don't Want U.S. There. [NPR Talk Show Host Claims]

Even if this were true (which I doubt after reading SGT Tibbet's story yesterday)...but EVEN if it were true would it really matter?

Isn't our purpose there to achieve our own objectives that will enhance our own security?

Perhaps we should have taken a poll before WWII to see if the Japanese and Germans really wanted us to enter the war....and then let that be the determining factor.

Would that be idiotic or am I the one who a wacko?!?

[TheBattman]

Sample size.... 40 Iraqis Bathists.

[dawn53]

Must be the same 98% that voted for Hussein in the last election, LOL.

Wait, maybe there were 100% that voted for him, so 2% have seen the light.

[seastay]

big deal 98% of the people in most countries don't want their boss to be at work, so what!

[Fred Nerks]

"Therefor perfectly qualified to work for NPR"

Obviously. This is an aside - I met one just like him at a dinner party last night. His father managed to escape from Russia in 1918. "from the Bolsheviks" he said. The family ended up in Australia and this oppinionated guest was born here. He is a typical twisted lefty. Why? Well, that took some figuring out. Seems the 'glorious revolution' robbed his family of their heritage. (His words.)

Get it? The man, aged in his late fifties, sees himself as a victim. His family lost an estate that he says he should have inherited. It's twisted logic, but something that psychology understands well. The victim sees himself as having been abused...and the abused themselves, abuse others in turn. His only revenge is to now do unto others...so captilalism and private ownership in his mind, is evil because...IF HE COULDN'T HAVE IT, WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE?