Posted on 04/05/2007 12:33:06 PM PDT by VoodooEconomics
Ask most Americans if they were aware that Iraqis, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, believe that life today is better than it was under Saddam Hussein, and you'd most likely elicit incredulousness, blank stares or outright laughter. Not because it isn't true, though. It is. The mainstream media just forgot to mention it. In the past month, two surveys that involved face-to-face interviews with thousands of ordinary Iraqis have been released. While each contained significantly different results, both provided substantial evidence that Iraqis are not nearly as gloomy as Americans have been told to believe. To the extent the mainstream media covered the surveys, far more attention was given to the one with more negative results, which was sponsored by ABC News, USA Today, BBC and a German TV network. Most Americans would not have even known about the poll conducted by British market research firm Opinion Research Business, which self-funded its survey of face-to-face interviews with 5,019 Iraqis, were it not for the Drudge Report. ...
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The Marsh Arabs seem much happier anyway...
Nor will the drive-by lamestream media print anything about it. And why? Because it will tear to shreds their anti-military propagandist bullshit. I would love to see any of those POS pick a rifle and walk the streets of Baghdad with me. They would not last 10 minutes in my job.
Instead they sit behind their computers, safe and protected, and spew their anti-military venom. Ask any one of them what have they done their entire lives to protect the freedoms they take for granted every single day. Ask what they did today to keep our country free or to bolster it’s security rather than tear it down. Ask them and expect silence.
Saddam was causing about 100,000 deaths per year by War, Genocide, and Political Execution.
We’ve dramatically reduced that death rate.
Insofar as untimely death is a measurable evil, we’ve been a force for good in Iraq.
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