[lbo-talk] Re: latest poll of iraqis

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/29/06, John Mage <jmage at panix.com> wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>  > 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.
>
> No surprise the Iraqis want US out and approve of attacks on US
> soldiers. That is clear enough without a poll. The surprise is the
> apparent quarter of all Iraqis who approve of attacks on US soldiers but
> supposedly do not want US out in the next six months, how to account for
> that?

Maybe they are selfless internationalists: until they get to build a
solid national liberation front that represents all constituencies
that must be reckoned with, their job is to pin the US military down
in Iraq, so their brothers and sisters in the Middle East, Latin
America, and elsewhere will have time to move forward.

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Yoshie
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