Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il parere degli iracheni

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/23/opinion/main2600708.shtml
Bush Makes Saddam Look Good
The Nation: Devastating Poll Confirms Iraqi Disapproval Of American
Occupation
by Robert Scheer.
Yep, you did it, George - mission impossible accomplished.
Unbelievably, four years of a bungled occupation have managed to make
Saddam Hussein's tyranny look good in comparison with "liberated
Iraq."
At least, that is the view of the Iraqi weightlifter made famous
through a video of him taking a sledgehammer to Saddam Hussein's
statue.
"I really regret bringing down the statue," Kadhim al-Jubouri said on
British television this week.
"The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse
than the previous day."
That's the judgment of a man who spent nine years in Hussein's jails,
and, unfortunately, it is one shared by a majority of his countrymen,
according to an authoritative poll sponsored jointly by ABC, BBC and
USA Today:
Only 38 percent of Iraqis believe that the country is better off today
than under Hussein, while nearly four out of five oppose the presence
of coalition forces in Iraq.
Even more disturbing is that 51 percent of Iraqis think it is OK to
attack coalition troops - triple the number who thought that way in a
2004 survey.
Square that with our president's assurances, offered since the first
month of this unnecessary adventure, that the insurgency represents a
small handful of terrorists.
While most of the antipathy is registered among Sunnis, 94 percent of
whom favor attacks on coalition forces, and by only 7 percent of
Kurds, a surprising 35 percent of Shiites endorse that sort of
violence.
Given the number of Kurds and Shiites who originally welcomed the
invasion, it is also startling that 53 percent of all Iraqis polled
agreed that "from today's perspective, and all things considered," it
was "wrong that U.S.-led coalition forces invaded Iraq in spring
2003."
The poll, part of a series conducted each of the past three years at
great risk to 150 pollsters, reveals a sharp rise in anti-American
feeling and disapproval of the 2003 invasion.
When Bush didn't find any weapons of mass destruction or ties between
Saddam and 9/11, the fallback justification for the taking of tens of
thousands of lives and the expenditure of over $400 billion in
American taxpayer money was that Iraq would become a model for the
democratic, free-market way of life.
Many assumed the richest, most powerful and most technologically
competent country in the world could improve life for Iraqis compared
with that afforded by a vicious dictator hemmed in by international
boycotts.
But it didn't happen.
What Bush has managed to do is to place the United States in a no-win
position as the most likely target for failed Iraqi expectations,
which he did so much to raise.
He is asking Iraqis to take his word for it that the invasion was not
post-9/11 posturing or a grab for oil or a blow undertaken on behalf
of Israel, yet he has nothing tangible to show as proof of his
sincerity.
Almost four in five of those Iraqis polled called the availability of
jobs "bad," 88 percent had the same negative judgment of the supply of
electricity, and 69 percent said the same about the availability of
clean water and medical care.
In this nation, gifted with the world's second-largest oil reserves,
88 percent termed the availability of fuel for cooking and driving as
quite bad.
Of course, the coffers of a handful of American mercenary,
construction and energy corporations have swelled, despite this lack
of credible achievement.
More than $20 billion in "reconstruction" contracts were given to Vice
President Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, alone.
The easy answer provided by Bush apologists for this dismal
performance is to place blame on the insurgency.
That, however, is not the verdict of the Iraqi people.
Asked to judge how the United States and other coalition forces have
carried out their responsibilities in Iraq, 76 percent say they have
done "a bad job."
And while a modest majority don't want the Americans to leave
"immediately," they don't see the increase in the U.S. troop numbers,
defended stoutly by Bush on Monday, as helpful.
Truly, this is a lose-lose situation.
Asked the source of violence that had occurred near the polled
individual's neighborhood, the largest group, more than 44 percent,
cited "unnecessary violence against citizens by U.S. or coalition
forces," while four out of 10 said they blame the coalition forces or
Bush for "the most for the violence that is occurring in the country"
- and only 18 percent cited "al Qaeda and foreign jihads."
So much for Bush's claim that U.S. troops are needed in Iraq to
protect its citizens from foreign terrorists.
Surprisingly, while 82 percent lacked confidence in coalition troops,
two-thirds of those polled expressed confidence in their own army and
police forces - yet more indication that Iraqis could do a better job
of policing themselves than we can.
Our continued presence there, ostensibly in the name of fixing the
place, will only continue to exacerbate anti-U.S. sentiment among the
people we claim to be saving.

 Yep,
Comprereste un'analisi politica da un uomo che inizia un editoriale con
questa parola?
-- 
lo Splenetico

 questa parola?
Non la comprerei nemmeno da un tizio che si riferisce a se stesso in terza
persona, senza (ahimé) essere Giulio Cesare.
Namib

At least, that is the view of the Iraqi weightlifter
Azz.... Sicuramente rappresenta l'intero paese con la sua opinione!
E ci sono pure dei *COGLIONI* che portano il parere di *UNA SOLA
PERSONA* per "il parere degli iracheni"! :)
-Stefano

 *PERSONA* per "il parere degli iracheni"! :)
Aiaiaiaiai!! ;-)
-- 
MP

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peccato che il rintronato de cesari abbia la capacità di
concentrazione di un drogato sotto LSD e non abbia letto il resto
dell'articolo che riporta sondaggi che dimostrano che questa opinione
è condivisa dalla maggioranza degli iracheni..
That's the judgment of a man who spent nine years in Hussein's jails,
and, unfortunately, it is one shared by a majority of his countrymen,
according to an authoritative poll sponsored jointly by ABC, BBC and
USA Today:
Only 38 percent of Iraqis believe that the country is better off today
than under Hussein, while nearly four out of five oppose the presence
of coalition forces in Iraq.
Even more disturbing is that 51 percent of Iraqis think it is OK to
attack coalition troops - triple the number who thought that way in a
2004 survey.
addirittura i "liberatori" americani sono così amati che la
maggioranza della popolazione dice apertamente di essere dalla  parte
dei "terroristi" che li attaccano....STRAROTFL

dalla maggioranza degli iracheni..
Certo, certo.... :)
*pat pat*
-Stefano

 wrote:
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Difficile crederti, visto che l'editoriale in questione lo hai invece
copincollato integralmente.
-- 
lo Splenetico

 copincollato integralmente.
Perché, l'editorialista parla di sé in terza persona?
Namib