Posted on 01/27/2006 8:00:41 AM PST by robowombat
57% back a hit on Iran if defiance persists Fri. 27 Jan 2006 Los Angeles Times
The war has not diminished Americans' support for military action against Iraq's neighbor if nuclear pursuits aren't dropped.
By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran's Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
Support for military action against Tehran has increased over the last year, the poll found, even though public sentiment is running against the war in neighboring Iraq: 53% said they believe the situation there was not worth going to war.
The poll results suggest that the difficulties the United States has encountered in Iraq have not turned the public against the possibility of military actions elsewhere in the Middle East.
Support for a potential military confrontation with Iran was strongest among Republican respondents, among whom 76% endorsed the idea. But even among Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the war in Iraq, 49% supported such action.
In follow-up interviews, some respondents said they believed Iran posed a more serious threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq did.
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Iran did and still does pose a more serious threat, if only because they are ruled by fundamentalist, fanatical, suicidal **it heads, throwbacks from the dark-ages. Both countries, of course, represented threats - as do other countries further down the road.
But it would have been a disaster to take Iran while Iraq was still ruled by Saddam. Iran is the bigger prize, and I am glad that we are blessed with leadership (in the USA) that knows the right way to get things done - to take the pieces in the optimal order, so to speak. Iran is marked for liberation.
Ross, you are a chucklebutt.
I recently read a quote from Machievelli that (of course) I can't remember exactly. To paraphrase it though, it goes something like this:
'War is inevitable. It cannot be avoided. It can only be postponed, usually to the benefit of your adversary.'
I hope that's somewhere close to right.
"57% now. I would like to know what the percentage would be after the shooting starts? I believe that only 35% of Americans are true Patriots! I would guess that we would have no more than 45% of the American people backing our forces once the bombs start to fall."
I think the "American people" in these kind of surveys are in favor of remote control warfare. Missles, smart bombs and live, color, 30 second video clips of bridges and tanks blowing up. That's it. If it's over in 30 days or less, hooorah. On day 31 they want to know the "exit strategy".
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