On Sep 29, 2006, at 6:17 PM, John Mage wrote:
> The business of polling Iraqis on key political questions seems absurd
> to me, given the self-evident truth of the notion that most people
> will
> tend to give the answer they think least likely to get them tortured
> and/or murdered. Nonetheless, Doug is a fan of polls (even in
> Iraq), so
> maybe he can help me out with this latest one; some excerpts:
>
> "Poll Says Most Iraqis Want U.S. Out
What's surprising about this poll? They want us out, and the poll overwhelmingly says that. Six months would be too abrupt, they seem to think, but 12 is getting to be too many. The Kurds skew the results downward; exclude them, and the majorities are even bigger.
Doug