"73 percent of Iraqis say the war was either right, or expressed no opinion."

Um, but only 50 said it was right. Only half of the 'dying to be liberated' folks that we 'are doing this for' think we are right to be there. Right. This is a problem since we are occupying their country.

"Only 9 percent of people in Baghdad are "very hostile" toward America."

And only 26 percent are friendly (one fourth!) with only 8 percent being very friendly. This is like saying "well, only 1 out of 10 of them hate our effing guts". Remember- we supposedly did this to liberate them. Doesn't look like we are wanted to me.

over half (53%) don't prefer us over Saddam Insane, a damn psychopath. 9% - nearly 1-in-10 would prefer saddam to us.

40% want Power to be handed to an Iraqi authority right away, 51% within 3 months or less.

for the supposed liberated, they sure don't seem to have much love for their 'liberators'. One might conclude we are not welcome.

Of course, your buying whatever is being sold by the party today, so that 23% think we actually came there to liberate them and 47% think we are there for the oil must be just the liberal media imposing their will on their poor Iraqi minds.

And that only 8% consider themselves to be very friendly towards us, and that only 32% think they are better off now and 47% think they are worse off. and that 40% want us to hand over power straight away and that 58% of them want us gone within a year.

Well, to heck with em, we know know whats best for them, right? Thats because we stand for Freedom!!! So our will is their bond. Right?

Sorry for the Searcasm, tom, but you sound like an Enron executive after the stock dropped 50%. There is not enough lipstick in the world for this pig.

Tom quotes the piece: "but this small percentage amounts to around 250,000 adults. It would take only a tiny proportion of these to be armed, angry and willing to act to make life a continuing misery for the occupation forces."

Tom, is that a true or a false statement? wouldn't 250,000 irate 'very hostile' be a BIG problem? What is NOT factual here?

tom wrote: "and you have to admit they're really working at it there.
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Wow, reality has lost you my friend. Why is stating something factually true bending the facts?

Davin L.