>On 4/10/04 6:01 pm, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I realize this is an uninteresting question to the righteous corners,
>> but do we know what Iraqis think today? I haven't heard much on the
>> topic lately.
>
>There's 40 pages of poll data from June over here:
>http://www.oxfordresearch.com/Iraq%20June%202004%20Frequency%20Tables.PDF
>
>I don't know if that's recent enough.
Things have gotten messier since June, but there's still some interesting stuff there. There seems to be broad agreement that Iraq isn't ready for elections. There's support for democracy over the longer term, and a single strong leader in the shorter term. People want the occupiers out, but 2/3 disapprove of attacks on them - and 95% or more disapprove of attacks on the iraqi police, people working with the UN, attacks on the infrastructure, attacks on contractors, etc. 58% want a greater role for the UN in Iraq, though mainly for humanitarian aid. There's 30-40% support for the war and occupation, and 50-60% opposition. 33% want the U.S. forces out now; the remainder think they should stay from months to years. 54% thought the Abu Ghraib torture was the work of a few people, and 20% thought the whole USA is like this. 2/3s were surprised by the disclosure of the torture and 3/4 think it makes no difference to the future of Iraq. 85% think the U.S. should help reconstruct Iraq, and 15% think it should have no future role.
No explicit question about a transition via the UN or Islamic forces, though.
Doug