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19/04/2004

ESTÓRIAS E MORAL / SHORT STORIES AND BIG MORAL: Capitulação e mentira. / Surrender and deceit.

Estórias / Stories

(1) Capitulação / Surrender
Zapatero ajoelha para melhor receber o golpe / Spain PM orders Iraq troops home

(2) Mentira / Deceit
Estarão os iraquianos mal informados? / BBC poll finds most Iraqis say their lives are better

Destaques da BBC do inquérito Oxford Research International: / The highlights of the Iraq survey are as follows:
• Overall, 70% of Iraqis say that their life these days is good, compared with 29% who say their life is bad.
• Compared with just before the war in 2003, 57% of Iraqis now say their life is better overall, compared with 19% who say it is worse and 23% who say it is about the same.
• 71% of Iraqis expect their lives to be better in a year from now, compared with 6% who expect life to be worse and 9% who say life will remain about the same.
• Half of Iraqis (49%) believe the invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition was right, compared with 39% who thought it was wrong.
• Opinion was evenly split on whether the invasion humiliated Iraq (41%) or liberated it (42%). Almost one in five respondents (17%) refused to comment.

(Inquérito do Oxford Research International / Oxford Research International’s survey)

Moral
Não me ocorre nenhuma. / I can remember none.

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