Latest survey of Iraqis conducted by ABC News, BBC, ARD (Germany) and NHK (Japan). Released March 2008. Share it with your skeptical friends. It’s still not the Riviera over there, but trend lines are positive. Sceptics will point out that the numbers are skewed because Kurds show the most satisfaction while Sunnis remain at the opposite end. But at least these are real numbers, as opposed to those pulled out of you-know-where by the doom and gloom crowd.
“From two-thirds to 80 percent of Iraqis support future U.S. efforts conducting security operations against al Qaeda or foreign jihadis in Iraq; providing military training, weapons and reconstruction aid; and assisting in security vis-à-vis Iran and Turkey.”
“Fifty-five percent of Iraqis say things in their own lives are going well, well up from 39 percent as recently as August. More, 62 percent, rate local security positively, up 19 points. And the number who expect conditions nationally to improve in the year ahead has doubled, to 46 percent in this new national poll by ABC News, the BBC, ARD German TV and the Japanese broadcaster NHK.”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1060a1IraqWhereThingsStand.pdf
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