[lbo-talk] Poll: They really don't want us there

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/27/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Michael Pollak quoted:
>
> > http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/08/
> > what_the_iraqi_.html
>
> Where we read:
>
> > But at the same time, significantly more Iraqis support democratic
> > values, including the separation of religion and politics.
> >
> > In 2004, 27 percent of the 2,325 Iraqi adults surveyed strongly
> > agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics
> > were separated. In 2006, 41 percent of 2,701 adults surveyed
> > strongly agreed.
>
> Uh-oh, guess they haven't been reading Yoshie!

If separation of church and state is what Iraqis want, they have voted
for wrong parties.

Iraqis have also voted for wrong parties if they want US and other
foreign troops out, too.

For either purpose, Iraqis should never have participated in
US-sponsored elections, which have done nothing except to escalate
sectarianism.

But it's their country -- let them make their own choice, even
lethally wrong ones.
-- 
Yoshie
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