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Originally Posted by MattLarson
Saddam played "hide the fish" with the UN for over a decade. What on Earth makes you think these "world polling officials" would have had any meaningful access to the Iraqi people?
Do you think Kim Jong Il is going to let the UN roam the countryside talking to the common man?
Folly.
Matt
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If we have good polling information in
MOST places, then those places that do not have good polling are much more obvious. This is not a short term strategy, but rather a long term strategy that can be used as a point of diplomacy ("you want us to change the sanctions, then show us that things have changed in your country -- sanctioned polling will give us that information").