The flaws with these kinds of pollings are obvious. First off, it's only among the Baghdad population. Second, this is a population that is historically prone to agreement with those in power. They have been raised to not question those in authority or risk death. Third, gallup polling mostly targets English speaking people and those with telephones. Obviously, these sorts would be in a more likely position to concede to American actions than former Iraqi.
This certainly isn't to say that Iraq isn't better off without Hussein or that the conclusions of the study are wrong. It is to say that the study is internally invalid. What's more the "liberals" problem with the action in Iraq is not that they are worse off than they were under Hussein, but rather that our president lied and our soldier died. Our government deceived us and circumvented established democratic means of action (both domestically and internationally) in removing Hussein. The problem is not so much that Iraqi freedoms are lessened because of our action, but that our nation's legitimacy and our political freedoms were.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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