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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

# Posted 4:58 AM by Patrick Belton  

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE: A poll commissioned by BBC and carried out by Oxford Research International (full disclosure: we didn't do it!) found that 70 percent of Iraqis feel things are going well or quite well in their lives; 56 percent believe things are better now than they were before the war; more Iraqis believe the US-led invasion was right (49%) than feel it humiliated Iraq (41%), and only 20 percent of respondents wanted Iraq to become an Islamic state.

BBC concludes, "it suggests that the reporting of the daily attacks on the occupying forces in Iraq could be obscuring another picture. This opinion poll gives a glimpse into the real life of Iraqis, who appear to be overwhelmingly pre-occupied with bread and butter issues - whether the lights go on or not, and the restoration of the economy."

(Question for the NYT's Dan Okrent: is this what you meant when you told us about rowback?)
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