Comments on: UN: Still unpopular with non-dictator types http://www.saysuncle.com/2003/12/17/un-still-unpopular-with-non-dictator-types/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: skb http://www.saysuncle.com/2003/12/17/un-still-unpopular-with-non-dictator-types/comment-page-1/#comment-2692 skb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1580#comment-2692 An Arab speaking person who saw the announcement said on one of the cable news shows that "death to Saddam" was a "polite" translation of what they really said. An Arab speaking person who saw the announcement said on one of the cable news shows that “death to Saddam” was a “polite” translation of what they really said.

]]> By: Drake http://www.saysuncle.com/2003/12/17/un-still-unpopular-with-non-dictator-types/comment-page-1/#comment-2693 Drake Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1580#comment-2693 Heh agreed, Bubba. It probably involved colorful moustache based curses. Note to Mr. Annan, yessir, now is the time for such remarks. Heh agreed, Bubba. It probably involved colorful moustache based curses.

Note to Mr. Annan, yessir, now is the time for such remarks.

]]> By: tgirsch http://www.saysuncle.com/2003/12/17/un-still-unpopular-with-non-dictator-types/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 tgirsch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=1580#comment-2694 That last comment about the Iraqi reporters(Uncle's, not Drake's) got me to wondering: If somebody somehow came in and forcefully overthrew Bush, there would doubtless be <i>some</i> people who would cheer the move. Could the deposer find a group of those people and hold them up as a shining example of the US "supporting" his overthrow of their goverment? I fail to see the difference between that hypothetical situation and some of the real pro-US Iraqi demonstrations. Finding a group that supports this or opposes that isn't by itself very helpful, without also knowing roughly what <i>percentage</i> of the population feels the same way. You can get a few hundred people together to support or oppose just about anything, but that doesn't give you any insight into how the public at large feels about the issue. That last comment about the Iraqi reporters(Uncle’s, not Drake’s) got me to wondering: If somebody somehow came in and forcefully overthrew Bush, there would doubtless be some people who would cheer the move. Could the deposer find a group of those people and hold them up as a shining example of the US “supporting” his overthrow of their goverment?

I fail to see the difference between that hypothetical situation and some of the real pro-US Iraqi demonstrations. Finding a group that supports this or opposes that isn’t by itself very helpful, without also knowing roughly what percentage of the population feels the same way.

You can get a few hundred people together to support or oppose just about anything, but that doesn’t give you any insight into how the public at large feels about the issue.

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