http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/flash/fl151_iraq_full_report.pdf Q1. Today, would you say that the military intervention of the United States and their allies in Iraq was absolutely justified, rather justified, rather not justified or not justified at all? ...........................Justified/Not justified EU 15...................29% 68% BELGIQUE.............20% 75% DANMARK.............57% 41% DEUTSCHLAND..... 25% 72% ELLAS...................4% 96% ESPANA................15% 79% FRANCE................18% 81% IRELAND...............40% 59% ITALIA..................36% 60% LUXEMBOURG........22% 75% NEDERLAND..........49% 50% OSTERREICH.........12% 86% PORTUGAL.............28% 67% FINLAND................31% 65% SWEDEN................36% 59% UNITED KINGDOM...44% 51% Q2. In your opinion, to whom should the management of the rebuilding of Iraq be entrusted? 1) USA 2) EU 3) UN 4) "The provisional government in Iraq" 5) "None of these" EU 15................ 18% 25% 58% 44% 2% BELGIQUE.......... 24% 37% 57% 44% 3% DANMARK.......... 24% 16% 68% 32% 0% DEUTSCHLAND... 23% 43% 69% 57% 0% ELLAS................ 20% 21% 42% 32% 7% ESPANA............. 15% 13% 52% 23% 2% FRANCE............. 10% 24% 53% 39% 1% IRELAND............ 13% 13% 65% 33% 1% ITALIA............... 22% 18% 40% 42% 2% LUXEMBOURG..... 11% 19% 52% 43% 1% NEDERLAND........ 6% 14% 60% 42% 0% OSTERREICH...... 18% 12% 53% 34% 2% PORTUGAL......... 17% 16% 53% 27% 2% FINLAND............ 11% 7% 69% 28% 1% SWEDEN............ 22% 8% 62% 31% 2% UNITED KINGDOM 20% 29% 72% 59% 2% Q3. And in your opinion, who should finance the rebuilding of Iraq? 1) USA 2) EU 3) UN 4) "The provisional government in Iraq" 5) "None of these" EU 15.....................65% 24% 44% 29% 1% BELGIQUE...............70% 30% 44% 38% 2% DANMARK...............60% 26% 51% 29% 1% DEUTSCHLAND........84% 31% 55% 37% 1% ELLAS.....................61% 19% 34% 13% 3% ESPANA..................60% 11% 31% 12% 1% FRANCE..................60% 17% 37% 25% 0% IRELAND.................63% 15% 35% 25% 0% ITALIA....................50% 20% 40% 23% 1% LUXEMBOURG..........65% 17% 33% 22% 1% NEDERLAND............54% 18% 48% 22% 0% OSTERREICH...........76% 12% 28% 17% 1% PORTUGAL..............61% 19% 25% 16% 0% FINLAND.................74% 7% 25% 17% 1% SWEDEN.................73% 15% 35% 26% 1% UNITED KINGDOM....61% 39% 58% 48% 1% Q4. In your opinion, who should guarantee security in Iraq during the period of rebuilding the country? 1) The US 2) The US and allies 3) Multinat. force of UN under US 4) The UN and peace-keeping forces 5) The EU and its Member States 6) The UN 7) The Iraqi provisional government 8) None of these EU 15...............6% 5% 11% 43% 5% 19% 8% 1% BELGIQUE........12% 4% 9% 37% 5% 20% 10% 2% DANMARK.........7% 6% 15% 37% 3% 23% 4% 1% DEUTSCHLAND..6% 7% 13% 46% 5% 16% 7% 1% ELLAS..............10% 6% 8% 39% 8% 17% 6% 4% ESPANA.............7% 4% 7% 31% 6% 28% 8% 1% FRANCE.............5% 2% 7% 54% 5% 14% 11% 1% IRELAND............7% 7% 12% 41% 2% 23% 6% 0% ITALIA...............7% 6% 13% 45% 6% 15% 6% 1% LUXEMBOURG.....5% 4% 15% 49% 5% 12% 8% 0% NEDERLAND........3% 10% 12% 41% 4% 19% 9% 1% OSTERREICH.......7% 3% 10% 47% 2% 17% 8% 1% PORTUGAL...........8% 7% 16% 35% 6% 14% 8% 1% FINLAND..............3% 5% 8% 52% 2% 21% 6% 1% SWEDEN..............8% 4% 13% 42% 2% 23% 4% 1% UNITED KINGDOM..5% 6% 15% 35% 4% 25% 8% 1% Q6. For each of the following propositions concerning the after war in Iraq tell me if you are in favour or not. c) The sending of [NATIONALITY] troops in order to maintain peace in Iraq in favour / not in favour EU 15...................................44% 54% BELGIQUE............................42% 56% DANMARK............................77% 21% DEUTSCHLAND.....................28% 71% ELLAS.................................29% 70% ESPANA...............................41% 55% FRANCE...............................35% 63% IRELAND..............................63% 35% ITALIA.................................60% 40% LUXEMBOURG.......................41% 58% NEDERLAND.........................69% 31% OSTERREICH........................27% 69% PORTUGAL...........................36% 60% FINLAND..............................46% 51% SWEDEN.............................58% 36% UNITED KINGDOM.................57% 40% Q5. And in your opinion, who should manage the transition to a sovereign government in Iraq? 1) USA 2) EU 3) UN 4) "The provisional government in Iraq" 5) "None of these" EU 15......................14% 23% 60% 44% 1% BELGIQUE................20% 35% 63% 47% 2% DANMARK................12% 11% 64% 38% 0% DEUTSCHLAND.........19% 41% 70% 59% 1% ELLAS......................13% 17% 48% 32% 7% ESPANA.....................7% 9% 49% 33% 1% FRANCE.....................8% 24% 55% 36% 0% IRELAND....................9% 11% 64% 33% 0% ITALIA.......................17% 15% 45% 30% 3% LUXEMBOURG............12% 21% 59% 30% 1% NEDERLAND................7% 13% 61% 42% 1% OSTERREICH..............11% 12% 58% 29% 1% PORTUGAL.................12% 16% 54% 30% 1% FINLAND.....................4% 4% 72% 27% 1% SWEDEN.....................8% 8% 65% 32% 2% UNITED KINGDOM.......19% 26% 72% 62% 1% Q7. Tell me if you totally agree, rather agree, rather disagree or totally disagree with each of the following propositions concerning the role of the European Union in the Middle East? b) The European Union should encourage political and cultural relations between Europe and Arab countries agree/disagree EU 15.............................86% 12% BELGIQUE.......................81% 17% DANMARK.......................73% 18% DEUTSCHLAND................85% 15% ELLAS.............................91% 8% ESPANA..........................86% 7% FRANCE..........................87% 13% IRELAND.........................92% 6% ITALIA............................90% 8% LUXEMBOURG.................82% 15% NEDERLAND....................85% 14% OSTERREICH..................82% 12% PORTUGAL.....................86% 7% FINLAND........................89% 9% SWEDEN.......................79% 14% UNITED KINGDOM..........86% 12% Q9. How would you evaluate the threat of terrorism in [OUR COUNTRY] today ? Would you say that it is very strong, quite strong, quite weak or very weak ? strong/weak EU 15........................................55% 43% BELGIQUE..................................34% 62% DANMARK..................................14% 83% DEUTSCHLAND...........................52% 46% ELLAS........................................41% 58% ESPANA.....................................76% 20% FRANCE.....................................49% 50% IRELAND....................................30% 69% ITALIA.......................................62% 37% LUXEMBOURG............................18% 79% NEDERLAND...............................35% 65% OSTERREICH..............................10% 88% PORTUGAL.................................36% 58% FINLAND.....................................6% 94% SWEDEN...................................21% 74% UNITED KINGDOM......................76% 20% Q10. For each of the following countries, tell me if in your opinion, it presents or not a threat to peace in the world?
What makes me mad about this is not the large number who feel that other groups should be responsible for transition in Iraq, but the large numbers that think the U.S. should fund it.
We broke it, therefore we should buy it. Beyond that, we show very little sign of being able to repair it at all, and letting the UN in would be more of an act of mercy towards US soldiers - except that this administration is loathe to give up control of anything. Did you see Nightline last night? Very interesting and evenhanded look at the occupation in different parts of Iraq. Basically, their findings were that things were either not changing (read: not really getting better) in the north, getting slightly worse in the south, and getting much worse in Baghdad. According to these reports, the American approach to peace-keeping and order is largely seen as brutal, harsh and biased by nearly everyone against their respective ethnic group. Meanwhile, the British have at least taken the 'softly softly' approach, taking off the steel helmets and not coming across as bullies. And guess what? The Iraqi citizenry isn't nearly so fed up with them. Beyond not having any discernible plan, it seems pretty clear that we don't have the intercultural/interpersonal skills to handle this.
The U.S. wanted to ignore the UN and the rest of the world. The US wanted this war so bad. Pay for it. Nothing about this should make you mad.
Am I reading this right? In question 10, the largest amount of Europeans (59 percent) think that Israel creates a threat to the world, followed by Iran, North Korea, and the United States. Countries like Syria, Libia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, trail far behind. Are Europeans in the same planet as the rest of us? Well, maybe they are in the same planet as the US liberals.
I think all this justifying and distancing is laughable, polls are polls. The question was about precise recent governments policies not ppl or religions. Unless you have a confused imagine of what a state is and who's accountable for its policies. For example someone confusing a sovereign state (with its citizens) with an ethnic/religious group of many different nationalities and citizenship. The question wasn't "who in your view is the more democratic State" or "which ppl do you hate the most". it was "For each of the following countries, tell me if in your opinion, it presents or not a threat to peace in the world?" Can I remind you, for example, that recently someone bombed another sovereign state? Action condamned by all the states in the world except 2. I will distance only from the evident bias against northern corean ppl shown by this poll. There's a spread of anticoreanism in europe, that's for sure. btw I'm sure european leaders will take into account the results. Officially distancing or not. They should be naive or masochist politicians not to. p.s. Look at NL column. p.p.s. Romano Prodi is still my hero. Now have a laugh, Ben. Sandro Bondi, former Berlusconi's spokesman, now also coordinator of Berlusconi's party Forza Italia. In an interview he described berlusconi as "goodness and pureness".
Like someone else pointed out, the problem is they want us to pay for it but they want someone else to be responsible for how the money is spent, which is rediculous. BTW I happened to see part of a PBS program talking about the liberation of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Someone was quoted as saying, a world that would allow something like this to exist does not deserve peace. I think the same could be said for allowing a man like Saddam Hussein who also was willing to slaughter innocent civilians with chemicals to continue in power.
Maybe in ways you won't like: http://www.gsnonweb.com/gsnlib_a/GSN2003/2003_11/20031106/224500.html "Still"
That's the funny thing about a poll. A poll can be set up in a wat that you can put the outcome of two questions together and connect them. This one is not. I also saw that many people wanted the US to pay and that many people wanted the UN or EU (haha) to be in control. But by itself that doesn't have to mean anything. Ever made a poll or executed one? If so, you know how people can give answers that don't add up. That's why making a relevant and complete poll is very hard. You don't seriously think that 'we' feel you should pay and let others be in control? Okay, maybe the French would... but other than that we're not that stupid. If the UN is to be in control all should pay. if the US is in control... let them pay. Simple as that. I for one feel that the US can keep it. Depends on what you call innocent. Remember the Vietnam thread? Sometimes it can be hard to tell who's actually the enemy and who's actually an innocent civilian, right? Same can be said here. These people (or at least part of them) were allied with Iran. Of course that doesn't make the deed any better... but all this BS about 'killing his own with chemicals'... not really how it is. Besides... I believe Saddam wasn't exactly a shining example of innocence when we gave him chemical weapons and the resources to start up a bio weapons program. So who the hell are we to point a finger at him? if I give a crazed man a gun to shoot my enemy and he starts shooting at everything in sight... should I be pointing the finger? It's to easy to take this approach and forget about your own responsibility in all of this.