Re: Milan Rai on UN occupation of Iraq

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:20 PM -0500 3/26/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > Doug and Joel ought to remember that Iraq is *under foreign
> > military occupation conducting counterinsurgency warfare* with
> > censorship, checkpoints, house raids, arbitrary arrest and
> > detention, no due process, etc. -- i.e. Iraqis do not have freedom
> > of speech.
>
> Since you clearly don't want to read the actual poll, let me supply
> some highlights for you.

What's the point of examining the content of a poll carefully if the
polled are not under conditions where they can freely say what they
think?  You have yet to address what impacts Iraqis' fundamental lack
of freedom have on any polling results (assuming that the pollster
isn't fully embedded in the occupying authority).

The idea of the occupier polling the occupied with a view to using
the results for propaganda purposes is patently absurd, but you
obviously don't think it is -- very perplexing.
--
Yoshie

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