got FOX News, then they would know that they want us there.

is the crap that makes Salon and most "progressives" look like morbid, anti American, appeasers.

The glee that some Iraqis want us dead. Forgetting that it is mostly Iraqis that are dying at the hands of the insurgents.

I don't know how accurate the poll is but the fact that Salon races to put it out there and give any of our enemies comfort is the best reason to keep "progressives" out of office.

This will not get you into office. No one will trust that you would have Americans interests at heart.

I wonder what most Iraqis think of the fortress-city called an embassy we're buidling? If they think we have any intention of ever leaving they better guess again. The American public had better realize that, too.

I love the new approach: quote the terrorists directly and use their own words to make your point

But then brush aside the will of the people...hmm where did they get this idea?

Oh yeah, I recall all the protesting prior to the invasion, seeing millions around the world, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands in our own country - and swiftly being ignored.

Well well, welcome to democracy.

There was another very important set of numbers in that survey that I think should be mentioned here

"Overall 94 percent [of Iraqis' surveyed]have an unfavorable view of al Qaeda, with 82 percent expressing a very unfavorable view. Of all organizations and individuals assessed in this poll, it received the most negative ratings (emphasis added). The Shias and Kurds show similarly intense levels of opposition, with 95 percent and 93 percent respectively saying they have very unfavorable views. The Sunnis are also quite negative, but with less intensity. Seventy-seven percent express an unfavorable view, but only 38 percent are very unfavorable. Twenty-three percent express a favorable view (5% very).

Views of Osama bin Laden are only slightly less negative. Overall 93 percent have an unfavorable view, with 77 percent very unfavorable. Very unfavorable views are expressed by 87 percent of Kurds and 94 percent of Shias. Here again, the Sunnis are negative, but less unequivocally—71 percent have an unfavorable view (23% very), and 29 percent a favorable view (3% very)."

This is extremely important, because the Bush administration's latest push to link Iraq with the "war on terror" is founded, in part, on continuing to link al Qaeda with the unrest there. The polling numbers I quoted above, combined with the ones quoted by Tim paint a clear picture that the Iraqis themselves are hostile toward our troops and our presence AND that they hold those opinions not because they favor al Qaeda and Bin Laden. They have negative opinions of us and want to do us harm because we are occupiers.

...is there some way this can be blamed on the Democrats..?