[](http://​pew​global​.org/​r​e​p​o​r​t​s​/​d​i​s​p​l​a​y​.​p​h​p​?​R​e​p​o​r​t​I​D​=​260)Bret Stephens, a reg­u­lar colum­nist for the *Journal*‘s op-ed page, finds four American-installed lead­ers in Iraq who back McCain. Imag­ine that. He then takes these four guys’ views and extrap­o­lates them to include all Iraqis. And while he men­tions a Pew poll that shows [the over­whelm­ing major­ity of the world sup­ports Sen. Barack Obama](http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=260), he notes that the poll skips Iraq. And he adds that he did no polling of his own. But speak­ing to four guys allows him to state: “Iraq, all but alone among the nations, will be pray­ing for a McCain vic­tory on the first Tues­day in November.”

This col­umn is so silly it’s barely worth men­tion­ing, espe­cially because there are dozens of polls that have been taken over the years that show Iraqis over­whelm­ingly despise the Amer­i­can pres­ence and most of them want the troops out. (This is not to say that *all* Iraqis want the Amer­i­cans to leave. I’m very aware some want the troops to stick around.)

Any­way, two can play at this game. Accord­ing to a Face­book poll I found using a sim­ple Google search, 62% of Iraqis pre­fer Obama as pres­i­dent. Now, obvi­ously, my “research” is about as sci­en­tific at Stephens’s. Which is to say, not at all. But then, I’m not des­per­ately try­ing to preach to the choir.