About 90 percent of Iraqis feel the situation in the country was better before the U.S.-led invasion than it is today, according to a new ICRSS poll.

The findings emerged after house-to-house interviews conducted by the ICRSS during the third week of November. About 2,000 people from Baghdad (82 percent), Anbar and Najaf (9 percent each) were randomly asked to express their opinion. Twenty-four percent of the respondents were women.

Only five percent of those questioned said Iraq is better today than in 2003. While 89 percent of the people said the political situation had deteriorated, 79 percent saw a decline in the economic situation; 12 percent felt things had improved and 9 percent said there was no change. Predictably, 95 percent felt the security situation was worse than before.

Source: upi


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Not sure why the quote isn't working correctly. This is the start of my response:



First - That article was written on 12/29/06

Second - I looked on the ICRSS website to see if they had anything more current and see what the survey actually said, not someone else's review of it.

Third - The source he quoted was upi.com This is the ICRSS website: http://www.irqcrss.org/index.php Why didn't he use that as his source?

Fourth - I couldn't find any survey they did that matched any of his numbers.

Fifth - another survey in 2007 compared the confidence people had in their government to improve the situation to the survey taken in 2006. Across the board, everyone had more confidence in every one of their leaders.

Sixth - the most recent survey I could find on their website is 2007.

That says nothing about how people feel today.

On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"

The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards. (1)

Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2)

"They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me" said a witness. (3)

[T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4)

Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6)

"It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." (7)


One anonymous phone call to the authorities actually led them to close down all of New York's bridges and tunnels. The mystery caller told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that a group of Palestinians were mixing a bomb inside of a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. Here's the transcript from NBC News:

Dispatcher: Jersey City police.
Caller: Yes, we have a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there, they look like Palestinians and going around a building.
Caller: There's a minivan heading toward the Holland tunnel, I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh uniform.
Dispatcher: He has what?
Caller: He's dressed like an Arab. (8)

(*Writer's note: Why would this mystery caller specifically say that these "Arabs" were Palestinians? How would he know that? Palestinians usually dress in western style clothes, not "sheikh uniforms")


Based on that phone call, police then issued a "Be-on-the-Lookout" alert for a white mini-van heading for the city's bridges and tunnels from New Jersey.

White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. (9)

When a van fitting that exact description was stopped just before crossing into New York, the suspicious "middle-easterners" were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these terror suspects turned out to be Israelis!
According to ABC’s 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers:


"We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem." (10)

Why did he feel Palestinians were a problem for the NYPD?

The police and FBI field agents became very suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports. Police also told the Bergen Record that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. (11)

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html

Not sure why you are trying to imply Israel attacked the Twin Towers but here you go:

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Dancing_Israelis

No idea how the myth these guys knew about it or were in any way involved has anything to do with Israel being attacked on a regular basis. The FBI cleared them of all charges.

Of course they did.
No big suprise there. They flew out the Saudis on 911 also. One can only speculate why our "staunchest ally.” has betrayed this country in so many ways from spying to the attack on the USS. Liberty.

You would be suprised how many people play a twist on words and say Mossada Binladen.

You know, before I posted it I knew you were going to say that.

There is no way to prove to you that you are wrong if you are only going to claim they conspired to cover up the truth.

You will believe what you want to believe despite any evidence presented. And you will take coincidental pieces of information that appear to be condemning and use that as proof of a massive cover-up that would need to include The White House (pretty much everyone in it), the State Department, all lawyers involved, all judges involved, The FBI, and everyone in Israel that would be involved as well (at a bare minimum) and in all the time since 2001 not one of the supposed "conspirators" has come forward.

I don't know of any but I am pretty sure you will now dig up some guy that claimed to be in the White House that "Saw and Heard" secret conversations he wasn't supposed to hear where they talked about the attack prior and how they were going to fool the American public. It has built in plausibility. Some guy just stumbled upon something he wasn't supposed to hear. Therefore there is no way he would have evidence because he would not have access to it. So the lack of evidence in this case would only demonstrate how truthful he is being. Also, because he wasn't included in the conspiracy that means he is risking his life to tell us this vile information. Probably anonymous with his face blocked out and voice altered to protect his identity.

with all thats going on in the world, you sit here and try to implicate the Israelis in all this? then you post another blog, with "someone says", or "looked like", or "it was reported"... that whole article sounds like it was written by a sixth grader... anyway, aren't you the one that said our government did 9/11? now it's the Israelis? you should make up your mind on who your gunna accuse...or better yet, find some facts instead of the "he said, she said".

All I know with any degree of certainty is that the offical acounting of 911 is BS.

Would I be suprised if rouge group of government and private interests did 911 to acchieve a political objective, not at all wouldnt be the first time.

I wouldnt be suprised at all.

That's the thing. You don't want to subscribe to these theories, because even you think that would qualify for a tin-foil hat. But What would you put past these people?

Well I dont have a mysteriouse insider but I do have Norman Mineta transportation secretary speaking to the 911 commision.

Norman Mineta Transportation Secretary: "No. I was not. I was made aware of it. During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "the plane is 50 miles out, the plane is 30 miles out" and when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out", the young man also said to the Vice President, "do the orders still stand?" And, the Vice President turned and crooked his neck around and said; "of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?"

Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant. And um."

[Lee Hamilton interrupts]

Lee Hamilton: "The flight you are referring to is the..."

Norman Mineta: "The flight that came into the Pentagon."

when you post lies, you get called a liar... maybe try looking at the big picture instead of just what republicans are doing... you might just be surprised...you never want a discussion, you just want to bash republicans, just like the OP. When you have an open mind, then maybe a discussion can be held...

believe what you want about 9/11, it's your life... but it just sounds like to me it's just another "jump on the republican hate bus and lets get stupid"!i would probably somewhat talk to you people about it, but when your hate comes in, like it always does, i quit listening...

Apparently you don't know what the order actually was. You are implying that the order was to crash the Pentagon. That wasn't it. Go research what the order was then come back...

Yes they did spin this one away didnt they? They had no choice.

Right!

You will believe what you want to believe and nothing anyone says or proves to you will change that.

Why is it so hard to believe that Muslim "radicals" that are regularly attacking all kinds of different places would do this? Espcially knowing they had hundreds if not thousands of suicide bombers before this.

I don't think it has anything to do with your interest in the truth. After all, you dismiss evidence because "they" just want to cover it up.

Stop for a minute and look through all you believe. How many people in how many different organizations would have to be in on this conspiracy? Once you look at that truthfully, can you still honestly say to yourself that what actually happened on that day was a cover up?

Just the idea of explosives being planted in the building prior is so far fetched ... Have you ever watched a demolition show on how long it takes to plant and set explosives and how much detail they look into?

There have been way too many conspiracy movies aired for someone to believe something so major could be a conspiracy. Seems pretty reasonable that it was a handful of Muslim "radicals" that did this. Especially knowing they tried it before.

I remember watching a news program in 93 where the reporter was talking about how hard a time firefighters were having getting to the upper floors. They pointed out how long it would take on a normal day then how long it took with people streaming down the steps where they could barely get past. The conclusion the reporter had was. "It is a good thing this fire didn't occur above the 80th floor. It could have been catastrophic." I couldn't believe what I had just heard. The reporter just told the people that have clearly demonstrated that they wanted to destroy it - how to destroy it.

When I heard a plane hit the world trade center my first thought was, "they finally figured out how to get a major fire above the 80th floor." I was not at all surprised that the plane hit as high up on the tower as it did.

If they wanted to have the maximum casualties, why didn't they hit as low as possible? Because that was the report they received. Hit high so the firefighters can't get to it on time.

You are saying Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, ordered a plane to crash into the pentagon and the people that were with him were talking openly about it????

Give me a break...

Seriously? Do you realy even think these inexperienced pilots who never flew a jumbo jet and only flew cesnas rather poorly could even choose a target? I wonder how they even navigated or could even keep a plane in the air? Dont you wonder why the planes were never interecepted ,that is after all standerd procedure.

Well thats all for now stuff to do.

You can view 911 Commission - Trans. Sec Norman Mineta Testimony at this link and tell me what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y

Just watched it. I am truly stunned. You have posted a link to a video that proves my point not yours. I am really amazed I didn't have to find another sources.

The opening statement...

"I want to talk about the order given, I think by the President, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists."

You quote the same video later trying to imply the order was to crash the plane into the Pentagon...

Do you remember anything that happened around that time?

There was a lot of confusion as well because the planes turned off their transponders. They were misidentified a few times. They also were not looking in the right place because they all did a 180. They were looking for them in the wrong place. Plus, no one would have considered it a major emergency because planes were never crashed into buildings before that. Up until they crashed, the biggest concern was a midair collision.

The Twin Towers were pretty easy targets for anyone. Easily the tallest buildings anywhere close to them. Wasn't like they had to dodge around other buildings. Don't forget the second plane. It was almost at a 45 degree angel when it hit. Why, because they were correcting for a last second impact. If they would have been any poorer of pilots, they would have missed.

ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI trained to be a pilot or tried to. He was arrested and detained because he only wanted to learn how to fly a plane in the air. He didn't care to learn how to take off or land.

From the legal case against him in the statement of AGREED facts -

"7. As part of its conspiracy to attack the United States, al Qaeda members conceived of an operation in which civilian commercial airliners would be hijacked and flown into prominent buildings, including government buildings, in the United States. To effect this attack, al Qaeda associates entered the United States, received funding from abroad, engaged in physical fitness training, and obtained knives and other weapons with which to take over airliners. Some al Qaeda associates obtained pilot training, including training on commercial jet simulators, so they would be able to fly hijacked aircraft into their targets."

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/moussaoui/zmstatementoffacts.html

Can you imagine what would have happened to George Bush personally or the entire administration if they had shot down all these planes before they did any damage? Before that, the idea of shooting down a commercial airliner was so far from American minds that it would have been as big a shock as the Twin Towers collapsing.

I think you missed my point about Norman Mineta's testimony under oath before the 911 commission, under oath got it? something Bush and Cheneye both refused to do.

Anyhow turning off a transponder does not make them invisible to radar (FYI) ever hear of NORAD? that is who is suposed to be called when a plane goes off track and you cannot make contact.

These and many other iregularaties realy make me quistion many of the events of 911 and its aftermath.

As it should for most thinking people.