Reply #10: If you look at the numbers, instead of the spin, it's not the same story [View All]

Look at the answers to the questions when they drop the Kurd's opinions out of the statistics:

(Answers from Arabs only)
U.S.-led invasion:
Was right: 40%
Was wrong: 46%

Liberated Iraq: 33%
Humiliated Iraq: 48%

Presence of coalition forces:
Support: 30%
Oppose: 60%

When you look at the answers for the 'Iraq's Need for Governance' question, you can pretty much see who they DIDN'T poll:

Single strong Iraqi leader 47%
Iraqi democracy 28%
Government of religious leaders: 10%
Group of strong Iraqi leaders: 3%
Government of experts/managers: 2%
Iraqi Governing Council: 2%
U.N. transition government: 1%
Government of Iraqi military leaders: 1%
Coalition Provisional Authority: 1%

Hmm. Only 10% want a government of religious leaders? Aren't the Shia the most numerous group in Iraq? So who did they poll, here? Apparently not many Shia.

And for the Kurds, of course they are happy. They are finally going to get their own country out of this.

This isn't the 'everything is going fine' poll that it's being made out to be, even biased as it is.