ANOTHER IRAQ POLL

Poll: Most Iraqis live in fear of violence 4 years after invasion

By Susan Page, USA TODAY
March 19, 2007

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...nearly 9 of 10 Iraqis say they live in fear that the violence ravaging their country will strike themselves and the people with whom they live.

There was very little trust in U.S. and British troops. By a ratio of more than 4-to-1 — 82%-to-18% — Iraqis surveyed said they had little confidence in coalition forces.

Poll respondents also said they've seen little progress on reconstruction as a result of billions of dollars in U.S. aid spent since the March 2003 invasion. By a 2-1 margin, Iraqis called those efforts "ineffective."


Poll: Iraqis gripped by fear and anger
Posted 3/19/2007 2:35 PM ET
By Will Lester, Associated Press Writer

_Slightly more than half of Iraqis -- 51 percent -- now say that violence against U.S. forces is acceptable -- up from 17 percent who felt that way in early 2004. More than nine in 10 Sunni Arabs in Iraq now feel this way.

_While 63 percent said they felt very safe in their neighborhoods in late 2005, only 26 percent feel that way now.

USA Today Has a Flash interactive that shows on all ten living condition questions, more Iraqis say they are "bad" than in 2005. 78% of Iraqis don't approve of the presence of Coalition forces.