Will the capture of Saddam bring stability to Iraq? CNN poll

[AnnitaR]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/15/sprj.irq.main/index.html

As of 6:27am
Will the capture of Saddam Hussein help bring stability to Iraq?

Yes 68% 158309 votes

No 32% 75729 votes

Total: 234038 votes


Okay so are the people who voted in this poll on crack? Shaking my head that 158309 of my fellow Americans are this out of touch with reality!

:eyes:

[La_Serpiente]

1. If there is any poll that needs to be defreeped

It is Bill MOyers one

http://www.pbs.org/now/

It looks like they already got him.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. You should start a thread with this poll so we can de-freep it!

Is the American media biased?

Yes. It has a liberal slant. 32%
Yes. It has a conservative slant. 28%
No. Coverage is mainly neutral. 19%
No. Coverage is adequate from both perspectives. 19%



Total Votes: 137289

[imax2268]

5. I made the same post yesterday...

(on edit)
Something doesn't look right about that poll...

look at the numbers...all those votes and nothing really has changed...

here's the link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=908397

[imax2268]

7. That's weird

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. <sigh>

The sheeple speak again. :(

[Birthmark]

4. That may actually be *good* news.

Their expectations for improvement are high. How shocked and angry are those people going to be when/if things in Iraq don't improve for our troops?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. All this poll shows is how little Americans know about the Middle East

I bet if you had these followup questions, you'd see that nearly everyone who thinks things will now be hunky-dory would get them wrong.

1. Iraq has been a sovereign nation for several hundred years.

2. Since almost all Iraqis are Muslim, they'll be able to get along without fighting amongst themselves.

3. Iraqis all want a western-style democracy, and with Saddam and his henchmen gone, they'll be able to create one easily.

[_Jumper_]

8. It isn't just Americans

The average Joe, Muhammad, Jose, or Junichro knows virtually nothing about foreign policy.

[jpgray]

9. People are voting what they hope

And no matter how wrong it is that we are there, now that we *are* there, I am always hopeful that both the people of Iraq and our soldiers will endure less death and destruction. With our current administration, such a thing is not likely to happen, but I still wish for it.

[PSR40004]

10. Time will tell...

Personally I don't see it increasing the violence and maybe decreasing it alittle as some will probably give up the stuggle so much (atleast those Sadam was paying). Only time will tell, some of us here might be over reaching with our talk of massive bloodshed over this.

[jpgray]

11. Based on the capture information, Saddam was *not* directing guerillas

He may have been paying them, or having his men pay them, but he was in a tiny hole without communications equipment of any kind, etc. So it seems doubtful that this will have a major effect on attacks. But I think the violence will continue at the steady rate it has until we pull out and leave a puppet government. Once that happens, the attacks will escalate and the puppets will be deposed.