Iraqis Say They Were Better Off Under Hussein

[ckramer]

Many adults in Iraq believe the coalition effort has been negative, according to a poll by the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies and the Gulf Research Center. 90 per cent of respondents think the situation in their country was better before the U.S.-led invasion.

Polling Data

Do you feel the situation in the country is better today or better before the U.S.-led invasion?

Better today
5%

Better before
90%

Not sure
5%

Source: Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies / Gulf Research Center

Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 2,000 Iraqi adults in Baghdad, Anbar and Najaf, conducted in late November 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.


http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/14282

[spindrifter]

1. I hope Chimpy, DeadEye, Condi

and all their sycophants get a chance to see this. Gee, who would have predicted when we heard that the mission was accomplished that the Iraqis would regard the change as not so hot? Huh, George?

[katsy]

2. Join the club.

We were better off with... with... well, just about anyone.

Everything the chimp touches turns to shit.

[Eric J in MN]

4. "He's King Midas with a curse"

The Hollies:

"He's King Midas in reverse
He's King Midas with a curse
He's King Midas in reverse

It's plain to see it's hopeless
Going on that way we are
So even though I lose you
You'd be better of by far
He's not the one to hold your trust
Everything around him turns to dust
In his hand
Nothing he can do is right"

[Eric J in MN]

3. 90% liked it better under Saddam than under Bush. NT

NT

[soothsayer]

5. WH presser tomorrow should be fun!

how's Tony gonna' spin this? lol! hope there's one tomorrow!

[nealmhughes]

6. People are amazingly tolerant of tyrrany. What they are not tolerant of is

unemployment, unsafe streets, and fraticide.

By merely telling the Iraqi soldiers to go home, along with the policemen, the neocons great self-reliance experiment has been rent asunder. We find Iraq a three-part state with only the Kurds in any stable social environment, yet relying upon US tolerance and support for their stablility, being subject, as always to Turkey, Syria and Iran's dominance.

No one with any concept of history would have conquered a sate and then merely left with a handfull of people who are idealogues without even a smattering of Arabic or Kurdish training alone with a puppet government where the people are being rapidly divided into de facto religious/ethnic camps by fear and retaliation. This division is poised to become de jure. Can one blame them? If the "Iraqi government" cannot stop looting and murder and kidnapping, then the people will in either the tradition of the tribe or else by a "purified" local power structure. That is human nature.

A Bible and a tattered copy of The Fountainhead do not a governing background make. This invasion was foisted upon us by a foundation of lies and enabled by those who wanted an enemy for revanche for a scheme cooked up by theorists financed by Wahhabi billionaires by our erstwhile "allies" on the Arabian peninsula.

Saddam's greatest sin was his goal of being the secular Napoleon of the Middle East; to spread the Baathist Party message of Arab unity and to modernize Iraq as Turkey had done, by denouncing religion as a governmental aim and spreading the wealth of the oil money throughout the region, from Iraq's border with Iran to the Peninsula and then on to Syria and Africa. Consider it in context with Napoleon's exportation of the Revolutionary ideas from outside the US and France to all of Europe, you know those little things like freedom of religion, an end to hereditary monarchy's power, an end to serfdom, etc. Like Napoleon, he was surrounded by synchophants and came to believe his own court.

Bush, likewise, not noted as a deep thinker, surrounded by a fawning court of neo-conservative "power" enablers in both parties, nourished by a press that has brought reporting to new lows, even in such papers as the NYT, and the daily hate one hears on TV and the radio came to believe this crap, too. He was going to be Churchill! While still not engaging the Arab culture in any style of substance! A dunce, an absolute dunce Bush is.

Meanwhile the inmates are in control of the asylum at the Pentagon and the White House still, even as 3003 US soldiers lie underground. We do not know how many Iraqis lie buried. Is there a reason the Iraqis want us gone? I can think of about 25 Million reasons, since there are that many people there in Iraq or else in exile.

[DemBones DemBones]

11. Excellent post. I wonder where Ahmed Chalabi is

these days and if he feels any responsibility for this fiasco? I'd guess he has no conscience.

[Say_What]

7. K & R

:kick:

[progressoid]

8. They just don't understand how democracy works.

[Imagevision]

9. Can anyone blame the Iraqi's for hating us after Bush has killed 660,000+

I fIraqi's were killing your next door neighbor's would you attempt to defend yourself??

[Harper_is_Bush]

10. Will this resonate in the MSM? N/t

[truthisfreedom]

12. Iraq is f*cked. There's nothing that can fix it now.

They know it, we know it, and the rest of the world knows it.

Notice how bushco has nearly fallen silent other than to promise that bush is coming up with a plan.

Commander-in-chief. bush thought that gave him license to just go f*ck around with some country... he's been a complete and total failure all his life, and this war is the worst thing that's ever happened on planet Earth.