if a majority of Iraqis didn't want immediate withdrawal
It's only the polls sponsored by firms from the occupying nations that said that "a majority of Iraqis didn't want immediate withdrawal," and even those polls didn't say that Iraqis would want to have their nation occupied longer than one or two years. The Iraq War will see its second anniversary on March 20, 2005.
In any case, the most important point is that, with the possible exception of the Kurdish militia, few Iraqis are committed to fighting for the continuing foreign occupation of Iraq.
At 4:06 PM +0000 12/31/04, Daniel Davies wrote:
I doubt that the Viet Cong could have won an election in Southern Vietnam, but there were just about enough of them to make the US occupation unsustainable in the long term.
Politically, Vietnam and Iraq are not comparable (at least not yet).
"It was generally conceded that had an election been held, Ho Chi Minh would have been elected Premier." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, 1953-1956, <http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/55election.htm> -- Yoshie
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