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I know the big USA Today/CNN Gallup poll of Iraqis has been out for a couple days, but I just looked at it this morning. It's actually pretty fascinating, with good news and bad.

First of all: The Kurds love us.

Also, 84% of Iraqis are doing the same or better financially since the war (nod to Andrew Sullivan's reader).

George Bush is not very popular but he's much more popular than Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein.

Huge numbers of Iraqis -- 69% total and 88% Bagdhad residents and 85% of Sunnis -- believe that if they cooperate with the CPA they or the lives of their families will be endangered.

But what I find the most amazing is that only 6%(!) of Iraqis have had personal contact with US military forces. This means A) the military hasn't been able to do nearly enough nation-building personal diplomacy B) Ninety-four percent of Iraqis have formed their views about the US military via word-of-mouth, propaganda fliers, satellite TV, etc.

The tiny number of Iraqis that have actually interacted with coalition troops in any way agrees with earlier polls I've seen. While the images being broadcast on American media are of an entire nation in dangerous upheaval,* the astonishing fact is that almost all Iraqis are living fairly normal lives and watching the war on TV same as we are, and getting their ideas that way.

What this tells me is that one of our biggest problems over there is radical Islamic propaganda being pumped into Iraq from al Jazeera and others. And it's a problem our military and government have done way too little to correct.

* Kind of like the earthquake stories out of my area a number of years back where, if you watched the national news, you would have thought the entire Bay Area had been flattened like Hiroshima. My parents were beside themselves until I called them and pointed out that most of the area had absolutely no visible signs that there had been an earthquake at all.