Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Al-Zarqawi -- Dead or Alive -- Does Not Matter, Says American Public

According to a recent CBS poll "half of Americans think the level of violence in Iraq will be unchanged by Zarqawi's death, while 30 percent say it will actually lead to more attacks against U.S. forces."

My own private poll which I administered at McCann's Lounge last night finds that 80% of Americans don't trust polls in general, and 95% don't trust polls from CBS, that most liberal of liberal networks.

My poll also found that 100% of Americans think the level of violence in Iraq will go down dramatically with al-Zarqawi's death. In the words of one respondent: "With Zarqawi dead his followers won't know what the hell to do. They'll probably just wander off into the desert and die. And dead terrorists are the best kind."

When informed that al-Zarqawi was spotted in New York City on two recent occasions, both times with his gay Mexican immigrant boyfriend, the same respondent said: "Well that's entirely different. He could cause real damage to U.S. morality, especially if he and his boyfriend get married."

This same respondent then encouraged the entire population of McCann's to light torches, find al-Zarqawi and his boyfriend, and bring them to justice. "Torture" was suggested as one possible outcome of the administration of justice, and "extraordinary rendition" was another.

The margin of sampling error on the McCann's Lounge Al-Zarqawi poll is +/- 3 percentage points at the 50th percentile.

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2 comments:

Moderator said...

How many people were surveyed for your poll? Enough to be scientifically accurate?

Paul M. Sark said...

About 20. That's the sample size that was used for testing Thalidomide and more recently methamphetamine.