OCCOM BILL wrote:nimh wrote:Finding that 98% of the population he claims to have liberated has already lost faith in him is one way to do so.
That is the most dishonest, useless statistic there is and you know it. Show me a study that says 98% want Saddam back. Show me one that says 98% want us to leave right this minute. I don't know what you're upset about, but your rhetoric today is very uncharacteristic.
Not me who gets his panties in a bunch about nothing today, apparently ... you guys sure defensive this Friday <shrugs>. Getting in all these lightning rods and stuff.
For example, why exactly am I to come up with a statistic showing that "98% want Saddam back"? Did I ever claim that? I mean, why do you want me to come up with proof for stuff I never said? Weird. Losing faith in the Americans does not equate with wanting Saddam back, no matter how often that canard is pulled out.
In fact, you can rage about "the most dishonest, useless statistic there is" but its quite straightforward. What did I say?
In my first post, I noted that "The US occupation now apparently is supported by just 2% of Iraqis."
In my second, I referred back to that, riffing on the same theme about how 98% has lost faith in you.
This is the case I brought, right - didnt say anything else, no?
OK, so where did that come from? Well, the line in my first post was a direct quote from the
Independent article linked here a
coupla pages back.
And I think I know where they got it from, too - probably from
this news, back in June 2004:
Quote:the main findings of the poll, which was commissioned by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) last month and which was leaked yesterday, reveal that only 2 per cent of the Iraqis polled in mid-May see coalition troops as liberators, while 92 per cent said they were occupiers.
Note also that the same CPA-commissioned poll, last May already (before a lot of heartache happened, think Abu G., Falluja) noted that "the coalition's confidence rating in May stood at 11 per cent, down from 47 per cent in November, while the troops themselves had the support of only 10 per cent." I posted a summary of such interesting data
here (also including the CPA poll result about how 55% of Iraqis back then already wanted the American troops to leave "immediately").
Now if you want me to use that number instead, thats fine as well, a confidence rating is all about "having faith" in someone after all. I'll just revise the 98% in my second post into 90% or 89% - its not like it would change anything about my point.
So, anyway. A CPA-commissioned poll showed that, back in May last year already, just 2% of Iraqis still saw the coalition troops as liberators, while 92 per cent said they were occupiers - but if I note that "The US occupation now apparently is supported by just 2% of Iraqis" or that only 2% still has faith in you, I'm using "the most dishonest, useless statistics"?
<scratches head>
Time to calm down some, I think ... and when everyone's calmed down again, I might even come back here and everything!