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| Poll: Major Change of Public Opinion in Muslim World |
| 2005-03-07 |
| HT Wizbang EFL In the first substantial shift of public opinion in the Muslim world since the beginning of the United States' global war on terrorism, more people in the world's largest Muslim country now favor American efforts against terrorism than oppose them. In a stunning turnaround of public opinion, support for Osama Bin Laden and terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation has dropped significantly, while favorable views of the United States have increased. àThe poll demonstrates that the reason for this positive change is the American response to the tsunami. Key Findings of the Poll: For the first time ever in a major Muslim nation, more people favor US-led efforts to fight terrorism than oppose them (40% to 36%). àImportantly, those who oppose US efforts against terrorism have declined by half, from 72% in 2003 to just 36% today. For the first time ever in a Muslim nation since 9/11, support for Osama Bin Laden has dropped significantly (58% favorable to just 23%). 65% of Indonesians now are more favorable to the United States because of the American response to the tsunami, with the highest percentage among people under 30. Indeed, 71% of the people who express confidence in Bin Laden are now more favorable to the United States because of American aid to tsunami victims. The Terror Free Tomorrow poll was conducted by the leading Indonesian pollster, Lembaga Survei Indonesia, and surveyed 1,200 adults nationwide with a margin of error of ñ 2.9 percentage points. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #5 Strong horse, baby. |
| Posted by: someone 2005-03-07 7:55:32 PM |
| #4 and to think, it's all Bush's fault 'cause he spent the first 24 hours relocating the Navy's Pacific fleet, instead of coming before the cameras, biting his lip, with tears in his eyes! |
| Posted by: Sherry 2005-03-07 2:23:17 PM |
| #3 Typos in Bubba #2 footnote. It should read: 2I have to cover so I won't be called a traitor by giving Bush a backhanded complement |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-07 1:24:25 PM |
| #2 Everyone gets it except Democrat ex-US Presidents... BILL CLINTON at Davos, Switzerland Jan 30,2005. I know it is not popular for an American ever to say anything like this, but I think it's true [applause], and I apologized when President Khatami was elected. I publicly acknowledged that the United States had actively overthrown Mossadegh and I apologized for it, 1 and I hope that we could have some rapprochement with Iran. I think basically the Europeans' initiative to Iran to try to figure out a way to defuse the nuclear crisis is a good one. I think President Bush has done, so far, the right thing by not taking the military option off the table, but not pushing it too much.2 I didn't like the story that looked like the military option had been elevated above a diplomatic option. But Iran is the most perplexing problem ... we face, for the following reasons: It is the only country in the world with two governments, and the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami. [It is] the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: two for President; two for the parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralities.3 1Mossadegh was in league with the Soviets, and so he apologised. 2I have top but cover so I won't be called a traitor by giving Bush a backha=nded complement 3 I know the magic mullahs veto any candidate they like but I am sucking up to the tyrants 'cause I want to be UN Secretary General after Kofi. JIMMY CARTER interview with CNN Feb 9, 2005 "Iran is a signatory of a [nuclear] nonproliferation treaty," Carter said. "Israel, for instance, is not. Iran still claims -- as backed up I think by the international commission on nuclear weapons -- that they are in compliance with the nonproliferation treaty.1 "I don't know what the facts are, but I think that's going to be increasingly important for the world to ascertain," he said. "And it may be that through the United Nations Security Council, the United States, the Europeans and others will continue to put increasing pressure on Iran ... to help reveal exactly what is the status of Iran's policies."2 Carter pointed out that Iran does have a right, under the nonproliferation treaty, to develop a nuclear power program and to dispose properly of the program's waste.3 "Whether they're doing it legally at this point, I don't know," said the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner. 4 1 âThere he goes againâ â Ronald Reagan 2 I won the Nobel (Ap)peace(ment) prize. I have to talk like this. My reputation is at stake! 3I donât care that they have a large reserve of oil and thus nuclear programs might be suspicious. Donât you know? Kerry has 3 purple hearts, and I am a Nobel Prize winner. 4And CNN Does not want ANYONE to forget it either... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-07 1:12:26 PM |
| #1 hmm... with the UN screwing up the aid so bad to the tsunami areas, maybe they will start hating that corrupt organization. We can only hope.... |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-03-07 12:50:28 PM |