Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Mamma Sheenan rappresenta una reale minoranza (sondaggio)

12% Say US Troop Withdrawal Will Stop Terror Attacks
Looks as though "Momma" Sheehan doesn't even have a respectable minority 
that agree with "her" stance on Iraq.
August 26, 2005--Just 12% of Americans believe that withdrawing U.S. 
troops from Iraq will stop terror attacks like the summer bombings in 
London. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 71% disagree and say that 
troop withdrawal will not lead to an end of terrorist attacks.
The survey also found that 54% of Americans believe the situation will 
get worse in Iraq if U.S. troops are withdrawn. Twenty percent (20%) 
believe the situation will get better in Iraq if American troops leave, 
while 15% believe that bringing home the troops will have no impact.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of men believe a troop withdrawal will make the 
situation worse. That view is shared by 48% of women.
There is a sharp partisan difference on this question. By a 4-to-1 
margin, both Republicans and those not affiliated with either major 
party say that the situation will get worse in Iraq if U.S. troops are 
withdrawn.
Pretty low percentage considering that at least 12% of the population 
believe they have been abducted by aliens.

 that agree with "her" stance on Ir. 

12% Say US Troop Withdrawal Will Stop Terror Attacks
Bush č ai minimi storici... forse c'č qc che non va...

 Bush è ai minimi storici... forse c'è qc che non va...
Tutto dipende da come fai le domande e come interpreti le risposte.
Mirco

 12% Say US Troop Withdrawal Will Stop Terror Attacks
Se credi alle idiozie propinate dai media pro-bush
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2656
ABC's Antiwar "Reality Check"
World News Tonight minimizes support for withdrawal
9/1/05
Cindy Sheehan's protest outside George W. Bush's Texas ranch has
recently focused media attention on the antiwar movement. But some
mainstream media outlets seem determined to marginalize such activism.
On August 25, ABC World News Tonight anchor Charles Gibson asked,
"People may tell pollsters they oppose the war, but are they part of
any real antiwar movement? We asked ABC's Dan Harris to take a reality
check on the depth of sentiment against the war."
Harris began his "reality check" with this:
For months, Americans have been telling pollsters that going to war was
a mistake. But that does not necessarily add up to a major antiwar
movement. While Cindy Sheehan gets a lot of media attention, only 13
percent of Americans, according to the latest ABC News poll, want an
immediate withdrawal of US troops, which may be why the public protests
thus far have been relatively small.
It's true, as Harris said, that polls have shown a majority in the U.S.
calling the invasion of Iraq a "mistake" (e.g., 53 percent in a August
22-24 AP/Ipsos poll, 54 percent in a August 5-7 CNN/USA Today/Gallup
poll). But ABC's suggestion that a much smaller fraction opposes the
ongoing war is highly misleading.
The 13 percent figure that he cites is derived from a two-month old
Washington Post/ABC News poll, taken June 23-26, which asked, "Do you
think the number of U.S. military forces in Iraq should be increased,
decreased, or kept about the same?"-and then asked the 38 percent who
gave the "decreased" answer, "Should all U.S. forces in Iraq be
withdrawn immediately, or should they be decreased, but not all
withdrawn immediately?" Thirty-four percent of this sub-group chose
"withdrawn immediately," and 34 percent of 38 percent is 13 percent.
Any poll result arrived at in such a roundabout manner should be viewed
skeptically. And indeed, there's a much more straightforward question
getting at the same issue earlier in the same poll:
Do you think the United States should keep its military forces in Iraq
until civil order is restored there, even if that means continued U.S.
military casualties; OR, do you think the United States should withdraw
its military forces from Iraq in order to avoid further U.S. military
casualties, even if that means civil order is not restored there?
Here 41 percent chose the "withdrawal" option-not a majority, but
much higher than the marginal 13 percent that ABC News chose to
highlight. (Note that a few more respondents supported withdrawal than
were in favor of decreasing the number of troops-illustrating the
problem with measuring support for immediate withdrawal as a subset of
those who wanted to decrease troop numbers.)
And surveys more recent than that two-month old "latest ABC News poll"
showed substantially more support for withdrawal-either gradual or
immediate.
An August 9 Gallup poll found 33 percent support for withdrawing all
U.S. troops now and 23 percent support for bringing some of the troops
home. And an August 25 Harris Poll, released the same day as ABC's
newscast, found that 61 percent of respondents favored bringing most
U.S. troops "home in the next year," versus 36 percent who wished to
"wait for a stable government."
Given those findings, it seems that ABC preferred its own older poll
simply because it fit the agenda of the report-namely, to suggest
that there is no significant antiwar feeling in the country. Harris
carried that dubious point further by claiming that the apparently slim
support for troop withdrawal "may be why the public protests thus far
have been relatively small." That depends on what "relatively small"
might mean. The worldwide demonstrations against the war on February
15, 2003 attracted millions to the streets to protest a looming
invasion of Iraq. And over 1,600 vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan
were held around the county on August 17. Organizers Moveon.org claim
hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in those events.
ABC's Harris closed in typical mainstream media form by suggesting that
grassroots activism is less important than the political establishment:
"While pop songs might reflect the public mood, it may take a
politician with a real plan to truly mobilize people." If history is
any guide, the people will mobilize the politicians to oppose the
war-not the other way around.

that there is no significant antiwar feeling in the country.
Certo, certo... :)
*pat pat*
*LOL*
-Stefano