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[Mar. 26th, 2003|11:29 am] |
Ananova:
Russians side with Iraq over US and UK
Nearly half of Russians questioned in a opinion poll say they sympathise with Iraq in the current war, and only 5% say they support the United States and Britain.
Some 45% say they are siding with Iraq, while 46% support neither side, and the rest were undecided.
The survey by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre questioned 1,600 people across the federation.
Asked about their attitude to the United States, 55% say they view it negatively, while 38% expressed positive feelings.
The figures represented a dramatic rise in anti-American and anti-British sentiments, exceeding the previous peak during NATO's 1999 air strikes against the former Yugoslavia.
Last summer, only 15% of respondents had a negative attitude to the United States, reflecting Russian President Vladimir Putin's policy of forging warmer ties with Washington after the September 11 terror attacks.
Gallup (www.gallup.com):
Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq
Bush approval up 13 points to 71%
by Frank Newport
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
Seventy-two percent of Americans interviewed in a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Saturday and Sunday favor the war against Iraq, while 25% are opposed. Roughly the same number approve of the job President George W. Bush is doing.
The percentage supporting the war is just slightly lower than the 76% approval registered last Thursday night -- the day after hostilities began -- but remains significantly higher than support levels in the weeks and months leading up to the beginning of hostilities. Approval levels for the concept of war had been running in the high 50% range in the months leading up to last week. Support increased to 66% on Monday night, March 17, after President Bush made his "ultimatum" speech in which he pledged military action if Saddam Hussein did not leave Iraq, and, as noted, jumped to 76% on Thursday night.
The level of support for the war against Iraq is slightly more muted than was the case just after the first Persian Gulf War began in January 1991. At that time, 80% of Americans supported the decision to begin the air war in the effort to drive the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
Both those who support and those who oppose the current war say they hold their views strongly. Out of the total of 72% who favor the military action, about four in five (59% of all Americans) say they support it strongly. At the other end of the spectrum, of the 25% who oppose military action, roughly two-thirds (17% of all Americans) oppose it strongly.
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| Date: | March 26th, 2003 - 07:53 am |
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The current rating for Bush is 11 points lower than the 82% job approval rating the American public gave his father after the Persian Gulf War began in 1991.
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Take it easy :-)
Frankly, this is just another illustration that current percentages don't really matter.
The numbers will become relevant again in about a year from now.
"What, me worry?" ;) | |
