[davinxtk]

Five thousand? Do you know how obnoxiously small a number that is? I mean compare it to the estimate of 1.7 million internally displaced Iraqis on top of nearly 2 million more who have simply left the country and a survey of five thousand seems myopic at best.

It also shouldn't go unnoticed that things like "disarm all militias" and "withdrawal of multinational forces" are clearly simple yes/no questions that people are going to answer based, as most everyone's reality is, on what they want as opposed to what sort of factual information they have on the subject.

The real improvements are going to be the drastic infrastructure improvements that are coming over the next few weeks and months. The internal collapse we caused by simply not allowing any agency that was run by the state to continue functioning is what's finally changing here, and it's what's going to change the remainder of the war. There's been very brief mention of how terrible an idea it was to disband the Republican Guard and alienate every former Baathist simply because they had a despotic leader.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that you posted it because it sounds newsworthy, but the only information to be gleaned here is how absolutely retarded our perpective on progess is. I'm sick of hearing about what the public thinks is happening or even really what they think is good for them. They know what they want, and it's not always progress.