It's raining gum-drops , cupcakes and kittens in Iraq

[SoCalDem]

:puke:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-03-15-iraq-poll_x.htm
www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-03-15-iraq-poll_x.htm

Updated 3/16/2005 4:14 AM



Most Iraqis say future looks brighter

By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — More Iraqis believe their country is headed in the right direction and fewer think it's going wrong than at any time since the U.S. invasion two years ago, according to a new poll.
The poll, by the International Republican Institute (IRI), due to be made public Wednesday, also found that nearly half of Iraqis believe that religion has a special role to play in government.

The survey of 1,967 Iraqis was conducted Feb. 27-March 5, after Iraq held its first free elections in half a century in January. According to the poll, 62% say the country is headed in the right direction and 23% say it is headed in the wrong direction. That is the widest spread recorded in seven polls by the group, says Stuart Krusell, IRI director of operations for Iraq. In September, 45% of Iraqis thought the country was headed in the wrong direction and 42% thought it was headed in the right direction. The IRI is a non-partisan, U.S. taxpayer-funded group that promotes democracy abroad.

Pollsters did not survey three of Iraq's 18 provinces because of security and logistical concerns. Two of those omitted, Anbar and Ninevah, are predominantly Sunni Muslim. A third, Dahuk, is mostly Kurdish. Krusell said that even if those areas had been included and 100% had expressed negative views, the poll would still have shown that most Iraqis believe that the situation in their country is improving.

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[ananda]

1. favorite things

I know.. like Maria von Trapp, they're all thinking of their favorite things.. like..

.. water
.. food
.. electricity
.. schools
.. a home
.. no occupation


Sue

[kanrok]

2. Golly...don't forget the puppies and rainbows!

n/t

[LynnTheDem]

3. International Republican Institute ... non-partisan.

ROTFLMAO!!!

GOOD one!!!

:eyes:

The GOP's International REPUBLICAN Institute of NEOCONS is not partisan so STOP SAYING that!

[nuxvomica]

5. My thoughts exactly

Check out their non-partisan board:
http://www.iri.org/board.asp

The names I recognize:

John McCain
Laurence Eagleburger
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
Chuck Hagel
David Drier

[LynnTheDem]

8. Most the PNACers are involved one way & another, as well. Gotta LOVE

how they claim to be "non-partisan". LOL!!!

[baldguy]

9. Of course they're non-partisan

"Partisan" is a French word, and they're definitely not French.

[SoCalDem]

10. Le Partisan Parisienne

mon petite cherie..oui oui!

[oblivious]

4. 23% who say it's going in the wrong direction don't think it's hit bottom?

Now that's depressing. How could it possibly get any worse.

[LynnTheDem]

7. That "poll" is pure bullshite.

The IRI is the GOP.

[Redstone]

6. And they're all going out for a day at the beach,

each one carrying a bowl of cherries.

Redstone

[Nickster]

11. Oh good, now I can stop worrying about it. Whewwww. eom

[diamond14]

12. this reTHUGlican poll will be released TOMORROW....

it's real shameful that USA Today is plugging the poll TODAY, and will likely run ANOTHER glorious story TOMORROW....

guess they couldn't count some areas of Iraq, because EVERYTHING is pulverized, and there is little life to poll....


Fallujah, February 2005....no one left to poll...KILLED/destroyed by AMERICA...