Thanks to the left-wing media and the Democrats, half of the American public has no stomach for a ground war.
However, most of America still LOVES a good air war.
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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This is priceless. Priceless.
Well, I wonder is Mr. Schumer has seen this poll. After all, he and his colleagues reside in the "mainstream" of American thought and customs, don't they?
Those that opposed the invasion in Iraq have to consider what our position would today if we had to move on Iran with Sadaam Hussein still in power.
Right... the Democrats will be for the strike before they're against it.
Moving on to more important matters, we now know exactly where the blood spatters were in the cruise ship cabin of the missing fiance
But that would require thinking, which is a terrible burden on those that have eschewed thinking for feeling.
update: newly wed
I am starting to have faith in Americans again.
you mean 57% of them
What the American people would like to see is a total conquest of the Iranian regime. Americans view Iran (and probably Saudi Arabia) as the source of Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism.
If you want to calm Iraq and most of the Middle East, neutralize Iran and Syria.
The recent call for sanctions against Iran in reaction to its restarted nuclear program is incredibly hypocritical (Jan. 23). Why are the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom allowed to possess nuclear energy while Iran is denied the same right? I understand the fear that Iran might produce nuclear weapons, yet all the nations seeking sanctions against Iran possess nuclear weapons of their own. If we are going to demand that Iran not have a nuclear weapons program, we should dismantle our nuclear arsenal as well.
If we are so concerned about nuclear weapons in the Middle East, why have we rejected the Egyptian and Saudi call "that the whole Middle East - including Israel - be declared a nuclear-free zone" (Jan. 17)? Is it any surprise that Iran would want to develop nuclear weapons when Israel possesses such weapons and is capable of reaching Iran with them?
If we want to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weaponry, the first step is to disarm the nuclear arsenals of the nations Iran most fears - Israel and the United States.
Ross Kleinstuber Newark, Del.
From a letter to the editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I wonder how many letters they had to sift through to get to one that echos their view.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/13721979.htm
But have they confirmed that it's Smith's blood??
Ross Kleinstuber lives in a make-believe world. Idealism over realism is, in effect, the quickest route to failure.
I think we all know that Saddam's Iraq would be right where Iran is today if he had not been toppled.
57% would support military action against Iran? Today? Well, we also know just about how far that percentage would drop when the going got tough. The weaklings would come out of the woodwork again.
That question is good for another 30 shows
Thanks to the left-wing media and the Democrats, half of the American public has no stomach for a ground war.
However, most of America still LOVES a good air war.
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