----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Alternate History
> --- Thomas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then I guess Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Bush, > > etc., weren't paying > > attention, because they're the ones who went in > > expecting to be greeted > > as liberators. > > > > Tom Beck > > And we were. I can only imagine how much that must > have upset you, Tom, how much it must have _burned_ to > see people celebrating their liberation by Americans. > My joy at the sight was probably equaled by your pain. > "Greeted as liberators" didn't mean that _everyone_ > felt that way. But at least a majority not only did, > they still seem to. The latest polls that I've seen don't state that clearly. In last summer's Zogby poll sponsored by the American Enterprise magazine, a majority of the people in Iraq stated that they thought the US would hurt Iraq over the next five years...with just over a third saying the opposite. I also quoted earlier polls stating asking if the US was a liberator or an occupier, and the trend went from liberator right after the war to occupier a couple of months later. I can look up my post if need be. I haven't seen recent poll results in Iraq on line, which is interesting. The poll results are definitely complicated. The same poll that states that most people think the US is an occupier states that most people don't want the US to leave in 6 months or less. That isn't really a contradiction, but an indication that one shouldn't freely extrapolate from data. I think the best conclusion that can be reached is that the people of Iraq have strong mixed feelings about the US. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
