Sunday, November 05, 2006

Iraq: public demand easier solutions

From Newsbiscuit:

A new poll has shown overwhelming support for the idea of one simple solution to the Iraq problem. A massive 78% of the public would prefer a quick and straight forward resolution to the situation, with only 15% believing that the best way forward was some complex, long-term process of painstaking reconstruction.

‘The politicians ought to get in there and bang some heads together’ said Maud Carter, a retired doctor’s receptionist whose analysis was typical of many of those polled. ‘They should stop messing about and sort it out’ said another.

The poll’s shock findings were welcomed by the Foreign Secretary who is now liaising with the US Secretary of State for Defense about the idea of ‘a bit less talk and a bit more action.’ Both governments will be alarmed to learn that voters are fed up with hearing about the complexity of the apparently intractable crisis, and would prefer one quick, cheap and simple act that would sort out the entire Middle East region ‘for once and for all’.

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