Seven out of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces to leave: poll

[sabra]

Source: AFP

LONDON (AFP) — More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe US-led coalition forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

The ORB/Channel 4 News survey suggested that 70 percent thought multinational forces should withdraw.

Yet some 40 percent of the 4,000 people surveyed said they wanted the United States to play a bigger role in rebuilding Iraq and 36 percent wanted more British involvement.

Overall, the wide-ranging poll painted a mixed picture of Iraqi attitudes, contrasting their bleak daily existence with a surprisingly positive attitude about the future.

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A quarter of those surveyed said they had lost a family member to murder. In Baghdad, that figure rose to nearly half (45 percent).

Read more: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMFqEqfF3-aS5X1kohv6ulyQdQ-Q

[RFK_Democrat]

1. Surely in a free Iraq the people's voice will be heard...

I mean really.

[magellan]

8. Poll after poll has been saying this for years

And no, it isn't just the Kurds as the second post below suggests. The Iraqis as a whole have wanted us out since the honeymoon with us ended in early 2004.

Their parliament wants us out too. But BushCo have only to lean on their puppets in charge over there, and suddenly we're welcome to stay again till the "next big obstacle" is surmounted.

[Arctic Dave]

2. I going to go out on limb

and say the 30% is Kurdish population. However, they will most likely turn us too if we keep turning a blind eye as the Turks bomb them.
That is an mind boggling figure that nearly half the people have lost a relative. With numbers like that how could you possibly think you are helping these people and that they want to be our friends.

[blayne]

3. Yea we should leave.

And we should help rebuild. We demolished their country, and we should help rebuild it.

[daleo]

4. They may get their wish

The way the U.S. economy is tanking.

[bushmeister0]

5. Those ungreatful SOBs! After all we've done for them.

[grytpype]

6. It is sickening that small group of people did this...

Just a handful of neocons in the right places, a retarded president, and this is what can happen.

[grytpype]

7. If Clinton and Obama don't use this, they're nuts.

70% of Americans AND Iraqis want us to leave!

[Barrett808]

9. k & r

[Igel]

10. The poll results themselves.

Why look at what's passed through a reporter's mental digestive tract when the unexpurgated data are available. And more interesting.

It's a PDF, of course.

http://www.opinion.co.uk/Documents/FINALTABLESMarch08.pdf

If you want what the OP's probably based on, it's here: http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=90

For people that like lots of data, here's the survey (with a different but overlapping set of questions) from 2007:

http://www.opinion.co.uk/Documents/FINALTables.pdf

Bon appetit!

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On edit: I read about an earlier poll today, assumed I was simply reading about the same poll from two sources. Stupid igil.

BBC News/ABC news did their own poll.

Some of the data: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_03_08iraqpollmarch2008.pdf

What appears to be a bit more of the data (complete? dunno.): http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1060a1IraqWhereThingsStand.pdf

Some of the data, partially digested: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7296117.stm

More of the data, more digested: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7296117.stm


It should be pointed out that the two polls agree on some points, but disagree significantly (which is to say, to a large extent, not just to a degree that's statistically different) on other points. No surprise there. On one or two points (such as whether the US should leave immediately) they seem to say opposite things, which is worth keeping in mind, even though the sample size on the second poll is about half of the first (ORB) poll. They were done within a few days of each other, so timing's not an issue, I don't think.