[lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper

[C. G. Estabrook]

On this point at least Cooper is simply ill-informed.  Polls of Iraqi
Arabs this summer (before the torture revelations) found that Sadr was the
second most popular leader in Iraq (after Sistani), with 1/3 of the
population "strongly supporting" him and another third "somewhat
supporting" him, while support for the Governing Council was in single
digits. --CGE

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> http://www.marccooper.com/
> 
> ...There is, in fact, no evidence whatsoever that they ["Al Sadr's
> group"] represent the mainstream sentiment in Iraq...