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Iraq poll September 2007: In graphics (View on the Surge)
BBC News ^ | September 10, 2007

Posted on 09/10/2007 10:04:40 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright

The latest of four opinion polls commissioned by the BBC and ABC has provided a revealing insight into the everyday lives, hopes and fears of people living in Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraq; pollsoniraq
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1 posted on 09/10/2007 10:04:43 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Austin Willard Wright

This poll conducted from a Baghdad hotel room.


2 posted on 09/10/2007 10:06:35 AM PDT by Lexington Green (There ain't no news in the news no more.)
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To: Austin Willard Wright
sample weight-adjusts for those carrying AK-47 and/or illiterate, and excludes all small business owners and parents with children present.
3 posted on 09/10/2007 10:09:12 AM PDT by Uncledave
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To: Lexington Green

I find this very hard to believe.


4 posted on 09/10/2007 10:11:39 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Austin Willard Wright

From the BBC and ABC. That’s all I need to know to totally disregard this disinformation.


5 posted on 09/10/2007 10:12:40 AM PDT by caisson71
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To: Austin Willard Wright
Wow. What a huge, steaming pile of Moveon.org, Code Pink, A.N.S.W.E.R. style BS.

Of course, we all know just how honest and objective BBC is.

6 posted on 09/10/2007 10:13:43 AM PDT by Allegra (Turning Vanity Threads Into New Socks Threads at Every Opportunity)
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To: Austin Willard Wright

Back from banishment again to post more porpaganda. Have you not learned your lesson?


7 posted on 09/10/2007 10:15:01 AM PDT by jrooney (The democrats are the friend of our enemy and the enemy of our friends. Attack them, not GW!)
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To: Austin Willard Wright

If BBC/ABC sponsored this poll one can be assured the reliability factor is extremely low.

what’s my source on that statement? - EXPERIENCE!!!!


8 posted on 09/10/2007 10:17:13 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Austin Willard Wright

If BBC/ABC sponsored this poll one can be assured the reliability factor is extremely low.

what’s my source on that statement? - EXPERIENCE!!!!


9 posted on 09/10/2007 10:17:24 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Austin Willard Wright

If BBC/ABC sponsored this poll one can be assured the reliability factor is extremely low.

what’s my source on that statement? - EXPERIENCE!!!!


10 posted on 09/10/2007 10:17:28 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Austin Willard Wright

If BBC/ABC sponsored this poll one can be assured the reliability factor is extremely low.

what’s my source on that statement? - EXPERIENCE!!!!


11 posted on 09/10/2007 10:17:33 AM PDT by elpadre
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I don’t trust any poll these idiots conduct.

Imagine being an average Iraqi and somebody you don’t know comes up and starts asking you questions like “do you like Americans?”

Now, if the person is truly a pollster you have nothing to lose by saying “I don’t like Americans and want them to go home.” It’s actually probably the safe move.

On the other hand if the person is a terrorist trying to find what they consider “collaborators” you could be in a bit of trouble.


12 posted on 09/10/2007 10:18:24 AM PDT by Gator101
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oops, didn’t finish my thought before posting:

On the other hand if the person is a terrorist trying to find what they consider “collaborators” you could be in a bit of trouble if you say you like Americans and what they are doing.


13 posted on 09/10/2007 10:21:27 AM PDT by Gator101
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14 posted on 09/10/2007 10:22:13 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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Is this the Paulestianians response to the ongoing Petraues report? A BBC/ABC BS poll? Lame...


15 posted on 09/10/2007 10:27:19 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: Austin Willard Wright
I'm watching Congressional testimony live on Sky News in a hotel room in the UK. I say "watching" because the sound on this channel does not operate, so I'm forced to gather what I can from the crawler text.

Typically, when the communist Lantos speaks, they put his works in the "breaking news" box at the bottom, all critical of Bush and Iraq policy. When Duncan Hunter presumably says good things, they put the words "Iraq Testimony" in the box.

They dare not say anything good.

16 posted on 09/10/2007 10:28:07 AM PDT by narby
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BBC reporting on their own poll is laughable biased cr*p. Most trends are okay. ...since the surge, SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN IRAQIS BLAMING US FOR VIOLENCE:


17 posted on 09/10/2007 10:37:52 AM PDT by WOSG (I just wish freepers would bash Democrats as much as they bash Republicans)
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These polls don’t even make sense. What it would have us believe is that where regions became more stable, the populace felt less secure, less able to find work or trusted the government less.

I’m not sure how the poll was conducted, but it sounds as if the terrorists had to be the main body of people polled to get these results.


18 posted on 09/10/2007 10:52:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: Tennessean4Bush; Austin Willard Wright
I find this very hard to believe.

Course you do. Because it's real world data and not the same 4 Iraqis Fox News keeps running by the screen. They don't want us there. They wanted Hussein gone and now that we've done that job for them, they want to be left alone to fight out the dominant sect of Islam to establish a theocracy with.

Of course because it's contrary to Fox and the administration, by default it must be wrong though.

19 posted on 09/10/2007 11:06:49 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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Course you do. Because it's real world data...

Go back to pleasuring yourself with your own voice and typing.

20 posted on 09/10/2007 11:43:03 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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