One In Four Americans Would Use Nukes Against Terrorists, Gallup Finds

Editor&Publisher ^ | March 01, 2005 | Greg Mitchell

[Wormwood]

Nukes against terrorist? Sounds rather inefficient to me.

Eactly. There's no way to nuke the New York Times building without damaging nearby real-estate.

[jocon307]

"Their poll is flawed."

Yeah, they should have called me! I'm on a roll tonight, I want to execute terrorists, eco-terrorists, 18 yr old and younger murderers, spammers, and some other group that eludes me at this moment.

As I said to hubby before: it's just good I'm not in charge!

[Wormwood]

As I said to hubby before: it's just good I'm not in charge!

I know what you mean. The way things are going tonight, the Earth would look like a charcoal briquette if I were in charge.

That usually means it's past my bedtime.

[PISANO]

Torture known terrorists if they know details about future terrorist attacks in the U.S.” won the backing of 39%.

This is startling!! 6 out of 10 Americans would allow a Nuke attack that would potentially kill MILLIONS of Americans and destroy our economy rather than TORTURE [ie panty head] the terrorists???

This is almost unbelievable!!!

[Rytwyng]

Only one in four?

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

This is startling!! 6 out of 10 Americans would allow a Nuke attack that would potentially kill MILLIONS of Americans and destroy our economy rather than TORTURE [ie panty head] the terrorists???

This is almost unbelievable!!!

The majority of Americans are ignorant.

I thought the minority of us knew that.

[benjaminjjones]

Dang!

Did I lose that last comment post, or is it still under the 15 minute taped delay? LOL

Heck, I almost sprained my brain on that post, thought I had some good on-topic questions in it.

If you pulled it, that's OK, it may have Ben too much for FR.

I really do appreciate it when you pull some of my comment posts that I'd later regret.

At least working on it clarified a few thoughts running around in my head, I just wished I'd saved it before hitting the Post button.

[rdcorso]

Maybe these are the same pollsters who had Kerry winning the election in a landslide.I would guess that about 75 percent of the people I know would nuke a terrorist country like Iran if an attack from them was imminent.

[MarMema]

39% is far too low.

Hey I agree with you!

[dogbowl]

1 in 4 spooks ought to be in the field.
Memo to CIA: assassination is okay!

I think people can tell between tactical nukes and city levelers, but the poll makes no distinction. Perhaps some responders were thinking of the mini nukes? Still, I send a MOAB. Nukes would be a PR nightmare.

[Logic n' Reason]

DAMN!

I finally made the top 25% of something!

I knew I could do it!

[TheDon]

LOL!