[lbo-talk] Fallujah: a picture of the triumph

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 17 18:09:33 PST 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Opinion polls can't accurately measure opinions of people living in
>a war-torn country under the foreign occupation, especially when the
>polls in question are funded and conducted by people who are in
>favor of continuing the occupation.

For sure, but: 1) polls have changed over the last 15-18 months, to being more hostile to the occupation, and 2) there's also the evidence gathered by journalists like Christian Parenti, who, unlike any of us, has talked to scores of Iraqis and heard things similar to what the pollsters found. Neither the pollsters nor CP found Iraqis shy about expressing their opinions.

Doug



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