On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >>How do you know the resistance isn't indicative of the wishes of most Iraqis?
> >>
> >>Seth
> >
> >How? By the same reasoning that keeps the results of the polling in
> >Iraq by the State Department's intelligence branch classified and
> >unavailable to Americans:
>
> Gallup will be releasing results of their polling in Baghdad over the
> next several days.
>
> Doug
Isn't that a little like polling NYC to find out what people in the U. S. think about the war in Iraq? I know the Gallup people will stress the sample is not representative of all Iraqis, but I suspect this will be reported by lazy journalists as "Iraqi public opinion".
Miles