That's what the headline of this ABC news blast could have read. Instead, it trumpted how well things are going for Iraqis since the U.S. invasion.

But is the poll extremely flawed because of the "face to face" sampling methodology? In a time and land where it's threatning to even venture outside for many. Sounds like a big bit of PR to me. Seems to violate just about every tenet of balanced statistical sampling. If I stand outside a corner and ask people passing by their perspective even here in the U.S., it's hardly representative of the population as a whole.

Also, note the big gap between Arabs and Kurds in outlook: a majority of Arabs believe invasion was wrong, feel by a 2 to 1 margin occupation is wrong and most alarming, 1 in 5 think attacks on coalition forces are acceptable. But if you just read the headlines, you remain ignorant of these numbers.

       

U.S.-led invasion:	All	Arabs	Kurds
Was right	48%	40%	87%
Was wrong	39	46	9
Liberated Iraq	42%	33%	82%
Humiliated Iraq	41	48	11
Presence of coalition forces:
Support	39%	30%	82%
Oppose	51	60	12
Attacks on coalition forces:
Acceptable	17%	21%	2%
Unacceptable	78	74	96