Rice: Iraqis want U.S. troops, despite allegations

[sabra]

http://www.oxfordpress.com/hp/content/shared/news/stories/US_HADITHA05_COX__W9296.html

Rice: Iraqis want U.S. troops, despite allegations

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that most Iraqis and their elected leaders want American military forces to stay in their warring country despite allegations of atrocities against civilians by some U.S. troops.

"We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated," Rice said on "Fox News Sunday." "But overwhelmingly, American forces there are putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them — that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the prime minister."

[acmavm]

1. In a normal world that would remark would automatically

be used against her at her committment hearing.

[Bigmack]

2. Just like the economy....

... everybody the Bushies know is doing well. The just don't talk to anybody who actually works and pays bills and like that.

The Iraqi's they talk to want us to stay. The neocons just don't talk to anyone but their stooges in Iraq.

This kind of blindness is killing our people and killing our country.

[underpants]

3. Is it overwhelmingly appreciated or are they overwhelmingly putting their

lives on the line?

[Akoto]

4. "If they ask us to leave, we'll leave."

I guess that promise has come back to bite you guys on the ass, eh Condi?

[saigon68]

5. Rice "putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis,"

Like these




The Queen Of Sleaze

[Supersedeas]

22. Condi will not have her integrity impugned with her OWN words--not fair

Neo-Cons believe the past should be forgotten as soon as the facts are discovered.

[saigon68]

24. Yes that's how they operate

With denial, smoke and mirrors

[underpants]

6. USA Today 4/28/04 Poll: Iraqis out of patience

Poll: Iraqis out of patience

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-28-poll-cover_x.htm

BAGHDAD — Only a third of the Iraqi people now believe that the American-led occupation of their country is doing more good than harm, and a solid majority support an immediate military pullout even though they fear that could put them in greater danger, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll. (Graphic: Iraqis surveyed)

[underpants]

7. Newsweek 6/16/04 U.S.-sponsored poll shows Iraqis have lost confidence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5217874/site/newsweek/

Grim Numbers
A U.S.-sponsored poll shows Iraqis have lost confidence in the occupying authorities—and that the majority of Iraqis want Coalition troops out of the country


June 15 - The first survey of Iraqis sponsored by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shows that most say they would feel safer if Coalition forces left immediately, without even waiting for elections scheduled for next year. An overwhelming majority, about 80 percent, also say they have “no confidence” in either the U.S. civilian authorities or Coalition forces.

[underpants]

8. CNN 4/28/04 Poll: Iraqis conflicted about war, its impact

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/28/iraq.poll/

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Nearly half the Iraqis polled in a survey conducted primarily in March and early April said they believed the U.S.-led war had done more harm than good, but 61 percent of respondents said Saddam Hussein's ouster made it worth any hardships.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll showed conflicted feelings among Iraqis over the war and its impact at the time of the survey.

Most interviews were done between March 22 and April 9 -- before the latest flare-up of violence that brought some of the deadliest fighting since the end of major combat nearly a year ago.

Iraqi interviewers conducted face-to-face surveys with 3,444 adults in Arabic and Kurdish in respondents' homes. The poll covered urban and rural areas throughout Iraq, representing about 93 percent of the population. It has a sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Nearly half -- 47 percent -- said they believed attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq could not be justified, while 52 percent said those attacks could be justified some or all of the time.

[underpants]

11. WaPo 4/13/04 80% in Iraq Distrust Occupation Authority

80% in Iraq Distrust Occupation Authority


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22403-2004May12.html

Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S. occupation authority and of coalition forces, according to a new poll conducted for the occupation authority.



In the poll, 80 percent of the Iraqis questioned reported a lack of confidence in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and 82 percent said they disapprove of the U.S. and allied militaries in Iraq.

Although comparative numbers from previous polls are not available, "generally speaking, the trend is downward," said Donald Hamilton, a senior counselor to civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer. The occupation authority has been commissioning such surveys in Iraq since late last year, he said. This one was taken in Baghdad and several other Iraqi cities in late March and early April, shortly before the surge in anti-coalition violence and a few weeks before the detainee-abuse scandal became a major issue for the U.S. authorities in Iraq.

[sabra]

15. I don't care about the numbers (facts), my gut tells me that they (Iraqis)

want us there... :sarcasm:

[IndianaGreen]

28. Those are great polls you posted, underpants

A dose of cold reality against the ideological self-delutions of Bush's nazi dominatrix.

[Theres-a]

9. She speaks for most Iraqis?

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE FOOLING?

[madrchsod]

10. they wanted us but after the first week they

realized the americans had no plans to protect them. they realized they were doomed when the only thing the americans protected were the oil ministry and saddams palace...

[Lost4words]

12. Yes AndI really love $3.00 a gal for regular, oh I like repukes too.

And I love it when a member of the armed services tells me he is fighting for FREEDOM,....YEA!

I am getting sick of ignorance and people lying to my face!

The Iraqies Are greating us as liberators, it is that the liberal media is not showing the good stuff!

[saigon68]

21. They are fighting for Corporate profits of Exxon and Halliburton

Freedom my ass.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Either she's smoking something...

or she thinks the rest of us are...:wtf:

[lumpy]

30. She says just anything she wants to hear.

Hear this beotch, you have done nothing for the good of this country, your'e just a tool.

[Malva Zebrina]

14. Rice is so old and boring now

she is just bobbling her head around, talking through her ass at her weekly press conferences on the talking head shows every Sunday.

What a shame. She had such potential when she was ten years old--I mean a talented concert pianist and potential Olympic skater.

[ShortnFiery]

19. IMO, she should have remained a concert pianist. :(

The citizens of the USA and The World Community would have been MUCH better served. :thumbsdown:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Although I've heard that she's a marvel when skating on thin ice.

[WhiteTara]

16. I thought we had already liberated them

Mission Accomplished and all. Or does she mean that we have to kill them to liberate them from their bodies? :grr:

[Roland99]

17. They'd rather die slowly of cancer than suddenly from shrapnel.

[classysassy]

18. "The clowns,clown"

lying for America's lying thief.

[genieroze]

20. She's dumber then her husband, oops er uh pretzeldunce is.

[truthisfreedom]

23. if the Iraqi PM has something to say, we'd all love to hear it, condi, so

if you would just shut up and invite him to make some official comments on the matter, we're all ears.

[Az_lefty]

25. she's as delusional as her damned husband. n/t

:puke:

[jwirr]

26. The puppet government want the US Troops not the Iraqi people.

[madmark]

29. how does this idiot lightweight psychically know that Iraqis want

the occupation to continue? is she channeling her inner moron?

[struggle4progress]

31. Iraqi leaders using harsher tone with Washngton

DPA , CAIRO
Sunday, Jun 04, 2006,Page 7

... Unlike the earlier interim governments, which more or less obediently followed Washington's script in times of crisis, the new Cabinet has demanded an "official apology" for the bloodbath in Haditha. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called it a "terrible crime" and said Iraqis faced misbehavior by US soldiers daily.

His predecessors, interim prime ministers Iyad Allawi and Ibrahim Jafari, never spoke in such a harsh tone. Even before he officially took office, Maliki affronted the US government by saying after a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that there would be no "American veto" over the selection of his Cabinet ...

... Iraqi leaders, if they do not want to be seen as US puppets, cannot fully ignore growing indignation in the populace over the behavior of US troops ...

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/06/04/2003311661

[AnOhioan]

32. Astounding.....

I would start laughing out loud if the entire situation were not so damn tragic. She and the entire cabal need to spend their lives safely behind bars where they can do no harm.

How they can look in the mirror and not go insane is a mystery I will never understand.

[daleo]

33. She must have polled Iraqis that live in the Green Zone. n/t