Well, while you aren’t getting much credit amongst Iraqi’s for security gains, it seems as if negative responses have dropped considerably.
[i]Instead, poll respondents credited the Iraqi government, police and army.
In the poll, however, more than half the Iraqis, 53 percent, felt that the rapid buildup of U.S. troops in Anbar province and in Baghdad has made overall security worse, not better. Even those negative findings, however, were a sharp improvement since a similar poll last August. Then, 70 percent said the American buildup had made matters worse in the areas it had emphasized. Only 18 percent said it had improved their conditions then, compared with 36 percent now…
In line with that, the poll’s findings on “views of the U.S. presence” in Iraq were the highest since the invasion. Asked whether the “invasion was right,” 49 percent said it was. The previous high had been 48 percent in the first poll of the series, by ABC News in February 2004, a virtual tie with the current level due to the poll’s 2.5 percent error margin…
In August, 57 percent of Iraqis had replied that it was “acceptable” to attack U.S. forces. The poll released Monday found that number had dropped to 42 percent.
Likewise, 47 percent said last August that the foreign coalition’s forces should leave Iraq. In the new poll, that had dropped to 38 percent…[/i]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080317/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_poll
