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Originally Posted by djnemo65
Sorry, I tried to edit out the infuriated comment. When i saw it on paper it looked a lot stronger then I had intended. So I am not infuriated.
But I have about 10 friends who have served or are serving over there, one of whom is one of my closest friends in life, and while they are proud of the work they have been a part of, they do not relay the message to me that things are predominantly going smoothly. To the contrary they believe, and recent troop surveys back this up, that our presence there complicates our mission because of the hatred we engender among the Iraqi people. It just seemed to me that you were suggesting that, with the notable exception of Baghdad, things are pretty much going according to plan, and I dont think thats the case. Ｊｕｓｔ ｔｈｉｓ ｗｅｅｋ ａ ｓｕｒｖｅｙ ｏｆ ａｂｏｕｔ １００ ｆｏｒｅｉｇ ｎ ｐｏｌｉｃｙ
experts revealed the opinion ｔｈａｔ this thing is an unmitigated disaster. So I am still interested in hearing about who you are reading who is suggesting otherwise.
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I did not take that as offensive so all is good. Can you give us a link to that survey you are talking about. I have been unable to find the article about a survey of the Iraq people and if they feel safe so here's what it said. 90% of Iraq's feel safe and are living normal lives but it did state that they did not survey (securtiy reasons) Anabar and one other providence which they said could lower the number to around 75% because they are the most affected ares at this time.