It is badly presented and the graphics are used poorly but, looking past that, the recent poll in Iraq is shocking. It shows the combined efforts of the UK and US have moved the country in the wrong direction. It shows that not only have things not apparently improved since the war, in fact over the last 3 years things have been getting worse. And, in the eyes of those living it day by day, it is going to get worse rather than better.
I will pull out a few highlights:
All things considered what is your view of the 2003 invasion of Iraq: 34% responded "absolutely wrong", another 19% "somewhat wrong", ie over half the country think the invasion was wrong.
Supply of electricity: 51% "very bad", 37% "quite bad"
Supply of clean water: 34% "very bad", 35% "quite bad"
(those would be the amenities we blew up then would they?)
How do you feel the coalition have carried out their responsibilities: 46% "A very bad job"
The presence of the coalition: 46% "strongly oppose"
And to finish with the most shocking - Political action: 51% find attacks on coalition forces acceptable (compared to only 17% in 2004)
Unfortunately I can't do graphs in my Blog (as in I don't know how I can add them) so I urge you to look at the results at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/19_03_07_iraqpollnew.pdf
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