ABC: More Than Half of All Iraqis Say It's 'Acceptable' to Attack U.S. Troops

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2954716&page=1

Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss

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This is the third poll in Iraq sponsored by ABC News and media partners — in this case USA Today, the BBC and ARD German TV — and the changes are grim. In November 2005, 63 percent of Iraqis felt very safe in their neighborhoods. Today just 26 percent say the same. One in three doesn't feel safe at all. In Baghdad, home to a fifth of the country's population, that skyrockets: Eighty-four percent feel entirely unsafe.

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The survey's results are deeply distressing from an American perspective as well: The number of Iraqis who call it "acceptable" to attack U.S. and coalition forces, 17 percent in early 2004, has tripled to 51 percent now, led by near unanimity among Sunni Arabs. And 78 percent of Iraqis now oppose the presence of U.S. forces on their soil, though far fewer favor an immediate pullout.

[leftchick]

1. didn't Murtha point this out about 17 months ago?

:(

[aquart]

2. What would we say about Americans

who were unwilling to attack the invaders and occupiers of our country?

[Cabcere]

4. Yeah, but this is DIFFERENT.

These are IRAQIS!!!!1!!!111!!! And they're attacking 'MURCAN troops!!11!!1!1!! Don't they know they're supposed to greet us as liberators? :sarcasm:

(Just to clarify - I'm not condoning attacks on our troops; I'm just saying that I can understand the logic. I wish it wasn't happening, and IMO this is yet another reason why we never should have gone over there in the first place...at least not without fully considering the possibilities.) :(

[Rosemary2205]

3. Sadly, I no longer trust ABC.

Day by Day, week by week, they are leaning more and more toward the Fox News direction of manipulating the news rather than reporting it. About the only decent thing I've seen out of ABC news since Peter Jennings passed away is the recent reporting by Bob Woodruff.

Even when the info they report supports my position I do not trust them.

[Nevernever]

5. Why is this news, again?

I would be willing to bet that if you polled the citizens of a great number of western nations, they would also say that it's OK for Iraqis to kill USAsians in Iraq and oppose the US occupation...

[Supersedeas]

6. Nothing to see here--feed them more vagaries from Condi and Hadley