We're Not Wanted

The Iraqi public thinks the US plans to occupy permanent bases in Iraq (79% of Shia, 92% of Sunnis and 67% of Kurds). Nearly half of Iraqis support attacks on U.S. troops (88% Sunni, 41% Shiites, and 16% of Kurds).

Seventy percent of Iraqis favor setting a timetable for U.S. forces to withdraw, with half of those favoring a withdrawal within six months and the other half favoring a withdrawal over two years, but Iraqis of all ethnic groups also agree that the US is unlikely to take direction from the Iraqi government.

Asked what they think the US would do if the new government were to ask the US to withdraw its forces within six months, 76% overall assume that the US would refuse to do so (Shia 67%, Sunni 94%, Kurds 77%).
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