I was told life under Saddam was nothing but rainbows and gumdrops falling from the sky. Do not worry- you will read this on CNN.
Update - Foxnews picked up the story. Still not on CNN or MSNBC. WEIRD!
Update 2 - CNN top story right now. CNN's new tagline - We want American to lose.
Update 3- NRO breaks down all the poll numbers. What does it say that Iraqi's have more hope than Americans do?
Update 4- MSNBC says Iraqi's more pessimistic than ever.
There really are two America's. One that wants America to succeed in Iraq and one that wants America to admit defeat and get out of there.
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Fair and Balance my ass. What kind news organization covers the news? One that aint fair and balanced, thats for sure.
It would seem to me that someone is manipulating numbers. Now, we just need to figure out who.
Well the MSM poll was conducted by ABC and the BBC. There is one issue. They polled 2,212 Iraqis, including oversamples in Anbar province, the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk. So they oversampled those in the most dangerous parts of Iraq.
The one on NRO and Foxnews was conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB), a respected British market research company that funded its own survey of a nationally representative sample of 5,019 Iraqi adults.
So ORB had double the number of people sampled and it was a national sample as opposed to a majority being from the hardest hit areas. Looks like ABC and BBC were looking for a specific message and they found it. ABC and BBC have a product to sell and it is called getting out of the war.
I would be curious to know how each of the surveys was conducted. With a population that for, what 50 years?, would say and do whatever they thought Hussein and his boys wanted them to say or do I would think it would be difficult to give an honest opinion. Especially when that honest opinion under the former dictator could get them killed.
I'm not saying here that either survey is invalid or biased in anyway and it's very possible that the ABC one is biased and the ORB one is unbiased. I'm just saying it would be interesting to see how the two polls were conducted.
According to the ORB survey, 1 in 4 Iraqi's had a family member murdered. In Baghdad, 1 in 4 Iraqi's have had a family member kidnapped and 1 in 3 have had a family member flee to another country. It would be interesting to compare these numbers from before the war under Saddam and after the war started.
Knowing how these polls were conducted would be very helpful. I would like to know how each one of the questions were worded. And I do not want to imply that ORB is unbiased - I have no idea. But i can guarantee that BBC and ABC are.
Your interest in wanting to compare current numbers of fatality in Iraq to those same numbers while under Saddam's rule implies a lack of knowledge of just how bad the conditions were under Saddam. In my mind, I find the comparison to be less interesting primarily because it’s so clearly the case that the current situation is a significant improvement. In order for the two situations be comparatively equal in extent not only would many many more Iraq have to perish but a general attitude repression amongst the people would have to set it. Remember people in Iraq were severely repressed. A repression, that for the most part has been eliminated.
By no means am I saying don't do the comparison. Im only saying that the comparison is not the interesting because to me its plain that Iraq have it so much better now then under Saddam.
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