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Actually Cactus of all the surveys and reports i've read, it seems to indicate that yes, indeed it is the majority of Kurds who are in favour of coalition forces to stay and who believe the US liberated their country. Reports i've studied from the Brookings institute (a pretty right-winng think tank by the way) and BBC News indicate things such as this:
[While not indicated in the published survey results, according to the March 16 BBC News report, “only one in three Iraqi Arabs believed their country was liberated” by the US-led invasion, “compared to four out of five Kurds”.]
and:
[When asked “who should take care” of “regaining public security in the country”, 7.3% named the USA, 5.3% named the “Coalition Forces” and 4.9% named the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Just over 50% named either “Iraq”, an “Iraqi government” or the “Iraqi people”, while 12% named the Iraqi “army/police/ministry of interior”.]
even in the Kurdish areas, there is little support for the "coalition"
[When asked if they oppose or support the “presence of Coalition Forces in Iraq”, 50.9% said they were opposed, while 39.5% said they supported their presence. Two-thirds of the respondents said they had little or no confidence in the US and British occupation forces. Just over 62% expressed little or no confidence in the CPA.]
I wont tell you the percentage of Shia and Sunni arabs who want the coalition out, but i ahve to say, it doesn't make present reading for the US.
For information, please check:
http://www.comw.org/pda/0501br17…
As you can see from the website, and increasing worsening attitude to the occupation. There are links on the site to more thorough opinion polls, but i have to warn you - the more recent polls make for grim reading
:)