Moderator’s Note: Ryan_Liam (and actually, anyone else who’s doing this), if you’re quoting two different posters in one post, it’s helpful to use the
[quote=name of poster]
tags to keep them straight. You don’t have to use the poster name tag for every block, but at least at every point where the person you’re addressing changes:
Cite?
There you go again.
Well, I wouldn’t go that far either.
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What have you used to make you assessment of (a) the sympathy ‘he’ (Sadr?) has and (b) the numbers who care if ‘he’ (Sadr?) “succeeds or not”?
The most recent CPA poll shows:
97% believe Coalition Forces are occupiers and must leave immediately
55% answered that they’d feel more safe if Coalition Forces left immediately
As far as Sadr’s goal is to remove the Coalition force from Iraq it would appear that he has more than a few sympathizers.
Sadr garnered support numbers of 68% (35 ‘strongly’, 32 ‘somewhat’) and oppose numbers of 29% (10 ‘strongly’, 19 'somewhat)
These numbers are nearly the inverse of Allawi’s (23 suport, 61 oppose).
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I counter that with this
Any particular part that’s relevant to the point your trying to make? If there is, could you quote that section?
As far as I can tell, this poll (which pre-dates the one that I cited by four months and is thus even farther removed from the current conditions) says that Mr. Sadr has abut three times the trust that Mr. Allawi has.
So, depending on what you were getting at, “counter” might not be the best choice of words. Maybe ‘support’ would be more appropriate- as in, “I support that with this.”
Have you given anymore thought as to the implications of Clwyd’s apparent dishonesty?
Still on the Road,
SimonX