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81% Of Syrians Believe US Is To Blame For ISIS

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Submitted by Cassius Methyl via TheAntiMedia.org,

81 percent of Syrians believe the U.S. and its allies are behind the creation of the ISIS, according to a recent survey from research firm ORB International.

“The advance of ISIL In Iraq has many seeking reasons for their presence in Iraq. 81% Syria/85% Iraq believe that ISIL is a foreign/American made group, while in Iraq with the larger split in sunni/shia population 75% also agree that it is a result of sectarian problems across the region.

 

Previous Prime Minister al-Maliki is also blamed by 71% as a driving force in the creating of the terror group. A majority (51%) also believe that ‘getting rid of ISIL is not possible without solving the problems in Syria also,’”  the report explained.

Further, the survey predictably found that many Syrians believe the country’s affairs are still headed in the wrong direction. As the report explains,

The poll also confirms a deteriorating environment.

 

A majority in both countries say things are heading in the wrong direction (66% Iraq, 57% Syria), while in Iraq 67% that they preferred their life two years ago before the conflict started, increasing to 71% among those from ISIL majority controlled governorates of Anbar, Ninevah and Salah al-din.

 

In Syria, just 21% prefer life now to what life was like under the full control of Bashar al Assad – 40% preferred life four years ago, 35% saying life is essentially the same.”

The results shouldn’t come as a surprise, but they do offer another piece of anecdotal evidence that suggests the U.S. had a major role in creating ISIS — evidence that is becoming less anecdotal every day.

 

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Sat, 09/19/2015 - 15:59 | 6569671 falak pema
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two remarks :

81 % of Syrians can tell shit from shine holia.

19% of Syrians are lost in translation.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:11 | 6569697 knukles
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Carlos Danger has got us covered.
That or Hillary is pursuing the don't ask don't tell Benghazi Policy
Either way we're saved.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:21 | 6569722 negative rates
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And they would be 100% correct, once you pick sides in a civil war, don't complain when the other side wants to prevent their own extintion, just like the fed does to prevent their own extintion, it's really that simple folks, guns or financial roses, take your pick.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:25 | 6569727 Publicus
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Assad for every man. Those 19% are ISIS supporters and should be exterminated.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 19:23 | 6570141 0b1knob
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I think the 19% are in transit to Germany.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 20:21 | 6570227 Sparkey
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"

81 percent of Syrians believe the U.S. and its allies are behind the creation of the ISIS, according to a recent survey from research firm ORB International."

 

I told my across the street Neighbor,  Old Mrs. Johnson, about this and she said; No good deed goes unpunished, I really don't know why we go over there to help them, it seems everything we do to bring Democracy and Freedom  to them isn't enough they are quiet for a while and than we have to go back and give them some more! Her Grandson was there dressed in his uniform and he said; I don't mind going over there and giving it to them, I can express a side of me I keep hidden over here, so don't you worry Gram, I'll keep giving it to them until they learn the Freedon and Domocracy thing. So you see, there really is Hope!

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:53 | 6571121 Tarshatha
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And the other 19% believe Israel and it's allies are behind the creation of ISIS.

Either way they're 100% right.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:28 | 6569731 Sanity Bear
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Let's see the emails, I say. Smart money says we're going to find that Clinton was paid by the Saudis to conduct her dirty wars in Libya and Syria.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:33 | 6569748 TongueStun
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Clinton's wars, or the socialist jew Federal Reserve Bank's Wars, not that that cunt was not a willing accomplice.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:41 | 6570058 SofaPapa
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I have family members who should know better, but who still believe there is a difference between the Dempublicans and the Repocrats.  They are supporting Hillary.  Even they know ISIS was created by the US.  Yet even knowing that, they say, "But we can't allow the other team in.  They will start wars!"

I don't claim to understand the mindset.  But there it is.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 21:53 | 6570411 Implied Violins
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Cognitive Dissonance. I see it where I work, with my friends, and with my family. People can only handle that a LITTLE of what they have learned in life might not be true, instead of almost ALL of it. Those who wake up to GMO's, can still stumble on vaccines. Those who find out the truth about radiation might still believe in fluoridation. Those who have found that holistic practices work better than regular doctors may still believe in the voting process.

All it takes is ONE misstep to hook you. That applies to not only the political process, but EVERYTHING we deal with these days...

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 06:54 | 6570929 conscious being
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IV, people living their lives in fear are negating their lives. Grappling with life and learning is what we're here to do. Those who are too afraid to come out of their corner never get it done and never really live. I'm shocked at how many people, deep down inside, are such cowards.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 23:01 | 6570568 SixIsNinE
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sofa papa - that mindset may be the result of systematic programming via hypnosis - a lifetime of intentional targeted advertising and language training of course controlling and/or framing the terminology and subject matter -- trauma based mind kontrol - a mindset that accepts the system Matrix and defers to the establishment hierarchy and perceived "experts""  ... thus, the ol' playbook of demonizing & smearing an "other" in order to gather the support or apathetic approval as the steps toward cold / hot war actualities ...

Music Therapy enhanced by Miracle Medicines work Miracles of transforming this mindset into an Awakened Consciousness guided by Love

 

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 00:56 | 6570726 StychoKiller
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Ever see "Brain Storms", "Dreamscape", or "Looker?"

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 07:04 | 6570936 conscious being
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Back in the day, I was doing my techy work for a tech company doing some networking thing. I never understood the product. They were always conducting focus groups and crunching the results. Then one day, we all got this strange memo. It said - If any reporters came up to you on your lunch hour, for instance, and asked about subliminal programming, send them to the main office immeadiately. It turns out, they were trying to port manipulation techniques, used in other media, like TV and movies to the internet!!!

I quit not long after I figured it out.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 07:29 | 6570962 SofaPapa
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An interesting corollary to what you're saying here is NPR.

The people I am talking about would all agree with you if you talked to them about how "TV makes people stupid".  Yes, all that advertising is clearly aimed as a form of brainwashing.

But they listen to NPR for hours a day, from when they wake up to when they go to sleep.  NPR is in-depth analysis.  That's different.

I used to be an NPR junkie myself.  Now I realize it is one of the most effective distractions they ever created.  It captures exactly that audience who are smart enough to see the blatant manipulation in the standard TV and radio and not to want to fall for it.

But NPR is also a formula.  And they 100% have an agenda.  It's just presented in a more refined manner.  And the advertising?  But there is no advertising...  yeah, right.  There is; it's just presented in a way to make its listeners feel special.

ZeroHedge is of course also a formula.  I spend a lot of time here because I like the style, and I enjoy the comments section.  I enjoy that tin-foil hat wearers are more welcome, sometimes getting attacked viciously, but at least part of the conversation.  There are fewer things in this venue dismissed out of hand.

It's not the criticizing or the rejection of an idea that bothers me.  What sets off my radar is when ideas are dismissed and ignored.  The ideas that aren't heard because they are 'not fit to print' (NYT) are far and again the most dangerous form of censorship.

I go to sites even farther out on the lunacy spectrum than zh at times, and I keep an ear out for what MSM is saying so I don't miss their perspective.  In an ideal world, people would be able to get all the information possible and then exercise our judgment as to which is useful and which is not.  There has never been an ideal world.

Long story short, the more subtle the form of 'information limitation', the more dangerous it is.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 17:38 | 6572358 Nobody Important
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A well oiled (US) Propaganda machine.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:25 | 6569729 VWAndy
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19% work for the man.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:42 | 6569900 junction
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Look at some of the people involved in wars in the Middle East and Asia: Bush, Obama, Cheney and Hillary Clinton.  All satanist degenerates you would expect to see celebrating a Black Mass.  These satanists are salivating at the chance for not just a war that kills hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Middle East but a world war that kills millions of Americans.   

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:01 | 6569678 chunga
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here's another poll.

75% in U.S. See Widespread Government Corruption

http://www.gallup.com/poll/185759/widespread-government-corruption.aspx

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:58 | 6569784 Rodent Free Corps
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90 % of Americans think they are smarter than average.

99% of statistics announced on the web are pure bullshit.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 10:20 | 6571175 Mr. Bones
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 17:50 | 6572389 SofaPapa
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The truly depressing thing is how many people would look at that quote and say, "Yeah, so he said that. So what?"

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:01 | 6569683 world_debt_slave
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how many Amerikans?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:05 | 6569691 L Bean
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Amerikan: "I thought ISIS was in Iraq?"

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:13 | 6569703 knukles
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Irack?  Then why does my Missus keep telling me to take the isiscicles down?  Not enuf hooch or women with more than 3 toofs in Lynchburg Tennessee to solve this problem

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:29 | 6569735 Sanity Bear
Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:28 | 6569700 JustObserving
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81% Of Syrians Believe US Is To Blame For ISIS

19% of Syrians are not well-informed

ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”

For three years, the US, along with the Gulf states and Turkey, poured billions into “opposition” groups, supposedly to unnamed “moderates,” but in reality to Al Qaeda-linked Sunni groups such as al-Nusra and ISIS to spearhead a sectarian war. The US, Turkey and Jordan have operated a base in Jordan where US instructors trained dozens of ISIS members. In an article last year, the New York Times confirmed that the CIA assisted Arab governments and Turkey by airlifting weaponry to these groups in Jordan and Turkey. The Guardian reported last March that British and French instructors were also involved.

Other ISIS members were trained near Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, where US forces are based. After completing their training, they went to Syria and later Iraq

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html

USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-...

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:30 | 6569742 Max Steel
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In Syria, just 21% prefer life now to what life was like under the full control of Bashar al Assad

Well duh Syria is already in a chaos right now due to someone's arrogance how can these syrians expect a normal life in a inflicted war-torn nation . let things settle  only then we'll see what figures will be 

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 17:44 | 6572371 Nobody Important
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All true. But good luck ever convencing the average American of that. If they don't see it on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, or one of the mainstream networks' news. It just ain't so.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:14 | 6569707 The Indelicate ...
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only 81%?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:42 | 6569767 SSRI Junkie
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the other 19% were isis

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:38 | 6569885 Ignatius
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ISIS immigrants.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:15 | 6569708 Who was that ma...
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81% of Syrians would be 100% correct.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:17 | 6569709 joego1
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American foreign policy has been fucking up the middle east since before I was born.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:09 | 6569813 Rodent Free Corps
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Yeah, the US is responsible for sunnis killing shiites since forever. 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:18 | 6570002 Pliskin
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How fuckin' old do you think Joego1 is?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:28 | 6570024 Rodent Free Corps
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I thought he was an immortal. 

 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 23:06 | 6570577 SixIsNinE
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38 - lookin fit judging from the avatar :)

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 17:48 | 6572383 Nobody Important
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At least as far back as, I believe it was 1949, when we engineered the overthrow of most of the government in Iran. Leaving the Shaw (a US puppet) in total control.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:17 | 6569711 I_rikey_lice
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81% of Syrians are pretty smart and the other 19% are headed to Sweden!

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:29 | 6569713 TonyRUs
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Of course a majority will perfer life before a war to life in the middle of a war. Same type questions were polled while the US was in the middle of the Iraq war: "Do you feel safer now or before the war?", implying that, if you did not, the entire reason for the war was failing. You might as well ask a guy on the operating table if he feels better now or before the operation started?   

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:19 | 6569715 Deus Irate
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Let me correct that headline for you: 81% of THE WORLD believes US to blame for ISIL.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:31 | 6569744 Teh Finn
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I believe none of the polls in America...so a poll of "syrians"  Give me a ****ing break.  What a ****ing joke.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 23:08 | 6570580 SixIsNinE
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 - "none of teh polls " .... Finn!

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:36 | 6569756 SSRI Junkie
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isis is the wife of osiris...it's egypt's fault

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:41 | 6569764 q99x2
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81% Of Syrians Believe US Is To Blame For ISIS

Well they are wrong. Here's your Huckleberry: Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs.

 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:59 | 6569768 The Indelicate ...
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The DIA is the intel agency least controlled by the usual suspects.

But it's amazing how the MSM continues to just promote naked fictions ~ no real journalism at all.

Too many airdrops, too many not using A10s to smoke long columns with nowhere to hide - too few sorties against "ISIS" oil infrastructure and weap depots - for that matter.... how is it the media was telling us ISIS raised $ via oil sales but never asked who was buying [Turkey and probably Israel]?

That's pretty basic.

It's an open question though as to whether there is really 1 ISIS or if, as I suspect, you have several, some directed by the Wahhabists, but some directed by the US and Israel or Israel alone.

Nuttyyahoo is likely going to "tell" Putin he's leave Assad alone so long as he has a free hand to bomb Gaza {after the next Israeli agent launches a rocket at some sand dunes} and/or Lebanon.

The 5 billion or so Israel gets from Uncle Sugar is a fraction of what it gets from criminal enterprises and international, organized Zionist Jewry... they killed US sailors, and sold the Chinese us missile tech even though there was a real danger that tech could end up changing things quite a bit in the Pacific

http://defensetech.org/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-tech...

Israel isn't an ally - it is a parasite that hates its host

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/11/23/israel-americas-biggest-fr...

Putin surely knows what the Oded Yinon plan is and while he does not at the end of the day give a fuck about who runs Syria, he surely wants to keep that naval base and a veto on gas transit to the sea... he also knows that were Netanyahu not a Jew he would be rightly derided as a far right wing supremacist nutjob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFr4C2BPLeM

And he has how many nukes? How many are in backpacks in the US ready to go to be blamed, incoherently, on Iran or Hezbollah?

The fuckery surrounding the investigation into the Jewish Center bombing in Argentina some years back actually points, strongly, to another Israeli false flag.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-a-case-study-of-israels-zionist-w...

http://www.voltairenet.org/article162474.html

Charlie Hebdo too - a certain wild sloppiness has crept in under Nutty. The saudi ambassador thing, the laptop of death, Israelis posing as CIA to meet with terrorists in Iran... etc.

As for Qatar - what happens as Israel expands its LEviathan gas find by nakedly stealing gas belonging to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine/Gaza?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-an...

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 16:59 | 6569787 Moccasin
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Obviously the Syrians understand the situation on the ground in Syria better than anyone else, but it also appears the Syrians are better informed than the American public, no surprise.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:14 | 6569986 Pliskin
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That tribe in the Amazon that have never had any contact with the outside world are better informed than the American public.

The frog my daughter brought home yesterday is better informed than the American public.

 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:01 | 6569794 The Indelicate ...
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Will Russia finally agree to deliver S-300/S-400 to Iran? (UPDATED!)

http://thesaker.is/will-russia-finally-agree-to-deliver-s-300s-400-to-iran/

If I had to guess - there are 4-6 Russian subs in the eastern med.

I don't think Ivan intends to get into a quagmire. I think Ivan intends to pull the US/Israel/S.A. deeper into one.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:05 | 6569801 NuYawkFrankie
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It's not called UiSiSA for nothing.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:24 | 6569847 roadhazard
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Sand people also wipe their asses with their left hand too. I don't put much stock in what a sand person thinks. It's amazing that the US can spend $500. million to finance one group and end up with 4 or 5 fighters but start a whole suicide cult with nothing but abandoned equipment and black flags. lol, neocons get way too much credit.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:10 | 6569976 Pliskin
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If we're refering to Muslims as 'Sand People' does that mean the U.S citizens are 'The Drone Army'?

Just a bunch of fuckin' robots doing whatever they're programmed to do.

Obviously Hillary is Jabba the Hut and Mcain is that weasely looking fucking thing that sits next to it.

 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:22 | 6570012 roadhazard
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With all the sand people wanting to come here they must love us for our toilet paper. I'll bet it's like seeing a TV for the first time.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 03:28 | 6570840 Adahy
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The obsession with toilet paper amazes me.
Question:  If you got some feces on your face, (changing baby diaper, kissing ass, whatever) would you feel ok with just wiping it off with some dry paper and moving on?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:36 | 6570045 Rodent Free Corps
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McCain? Aren't you about two elections behind times?

Even the Rs despise that corrupt DINO these days. Well, except for Lindsey Graham who loves McCain's precious fluids of course. Oh, and Rubio who seemed to like getting tag teamed by McCain and Shumer. 

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:26 | 6569852 Phoenix901210
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If 71% prefered their lives two years ago than what it is now in ISIL controlled regions.

Does that mean 29% prefer their lives now than two years ago, or feel there is no difference?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 18:57 | 6570090 LostWages
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The 29% are the ones fleeing to Europe.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:42 | 6569899 CHoward
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And 100% of that 81% would be absolutely correct.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 17:48 | 6569919 Bunga Bunga
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Looks like Syrians' mass use of smartphone bears fruits, something you can't say about the US population.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 20:10 | 6570213 Able Ape
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Just fuck the knuckle-dragging low IQ Americans...

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 20:28 | 6570231 Monetas
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21% of Syrians say life is better ?

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 21:12 | 6570309 Grandad Grumps
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Clearly the western zionist invaders of Syria are evil.

Sat, 09/19/2015 - 22:07 | 6570442 Crusader75
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ISIS was created by Cheney and Bush, but accidentally.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 01:56 | 6570773 cwsuisse
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Until 2003, as long as Saddam Hussein was in power in Iracq, there was no ISIS. After the US dethroned him the Iracq became the scene of intensive US presence. Seven years later a civil war started in Syria. With Saddam Hussein still in power the civil war in Syria would have been impossible. Hence it is impossible to negate that the US set the stage for civil war in Syria by the removal of Saddam Hussein. I would call it the "second great US-caused destabilization" after Afghanistan where the US led the foundations for the creation of Taliban and Al-Quaeida by arming rebells (terrorists) with Stinger and other weapon systems. It is well documented that the US is against Assad. It is obvious that the rebells (terrorists) fighting against Assad can not fight without extensive support from outside Syria, particularly from the Iracq, a country under US-control after 2003. Without the explicit consent of the US the commencement of the civil war in Syria would have been impossible. It is difficult to assume that the US-interest in provoking civil wars (currently such wars rage in Afghanistan, Lybia, Iracq and Syria) did not include the supply of arms and money to people that now fight within ISIS. In the interim the US openly admits the training of fighters that are supposed to fight ISIS but may soon fight with ISIS. Given all the facts it is irrelevant what the population in Syria thinks. It is more than clear that the US created ISIS. Thank you, America!

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 04:47 | 6570861 JailBanksters
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If people don't know USIS was created by the USA :AND" Israel, then it's time to stop watching ZNN and FOX. Which is probably why the White House tried to disassociate themselves from ISIS by calling them ISIL instead. So the USA created ISIS, ISIL is the new booger man now.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 07:49 | 6570984 Joe A
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Quite amazing actually that they managed to hold a survey in that country considering the mess there.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 08:12 | 6571006 Fireman
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I$I$ all that stands between USSA's inevitable collapse as the Saudi Mercan toilet paper dollah gets flushed from the global Ponzi crapper.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:07 | 6571061 Marley
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81% Of Syrians Believe US Is To Blame For ISIS

They must read ZH.

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 10:57 | 6571269 highwaytoserfdom
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 What about the Sarin, Hunter not Beau.   Remember Beau (RIP) was a Major in Jag. The same court that put Manning away for showing the US helicopter shooting Iraq Journalist.

 

History repeating itself war is the answer...    "Honest Abe & Smedley Darlington Butler"

 

coming to a neighborhood near you http://controversialtimes.com/news/police-sniper-ends-100-mph-chase-with... amazing shot?  No Murder

Sun, 09/20/2015 - 14:02 | 6571744 Couvrot2
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I am assuming 81% of them don't want to come here, then.

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