Posted on 02/24/2006 9:19:11 PM PST by rip033
WASHINGTON - Iran has replaced Iraq as the country Americans consider to be their greatest enemy, according to a Gallup Poll. Canada and Great Britain were ranked as America's best friends.
The percentage of Americans with a positive view of France and Germany has moved up sharply since 2003, the poll said, when the two allies challenged President Bush's Iraq policy.
Thirty-one percent of Americans gave the nod to Iran as the worst enemy in polling of 1,002 adults between Feb. 6-9.
This represented an increase from 14 percent last year, and appeared to reflect growing American concern over the potential for the Islamic republic to acquire nuclear weapons.Twenty-two percent listed Iraq as the worst enemy, the same total as a year ago.
Although Iraq has an American-backed government, anti-Americanism in the country is widespread, demonstrated in attacks by insurgents against U.S. troops.
Behind Iran and Iraq was North Korea, with 15 percent saying it was this country's greatest enemy. North Korea is considered by many to be a danger because of its threats to use the nuclear weapons it claims to possess.
The margin of sampling error for the telephone poll was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The Gallup poll also measured whether people viewed other countries favorably or unfavorably.
Almost nine in 10 viewed Canada as "very favorable" or "mostly favorable," with Great Britain getting about the same rating.
Almost eight in 10 felt that way about Japan and Germany, almost seven in 10 felt that way about Israel, Taiwan, the Philippines, India and Mexico
France has rebounded nicely with a 54 percent favorable rating compared with only 34 percent having a favorable view just before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which France strongly opposed. Forty percent of Americans now have an unfavorable view of France.
Like France, Germany is held in higher esteem nowadays than it was in 2003 when it joined Paris in the anti-war camp.
Seventy-nine percent of the poll respondents saw Germany in a favorable light, with only 15 percent unfavorable. Only half viewed Germany favorably in 2003.
Here's a good movie to send off to Iran--
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=oXnyDV244Zo
Democrats see the UAE as enemy #1 LOL
So how far off base was Dubya when he said axis of evil?
Yep! Democrats are "playing politics of fear and smear!" LOL
It's nice to have a real foeign enemy for a change! Since Russia folded, I was wondering if our only enimies were us.
Nah, the Rats never changed their #1 enemy, it`s still Bush. The same holds true for a lot of people that claim to be Freepers.
UAE provides the best Port services our Troops could ever imagine, they've opened up their AF Base for us to use as long as we want, They donate 100 Million Dollars to Katrina victims and they allow us to set the standards of how their Ports should be operated and they are trashed by the left and the paranoid right.
Wars are not won by Military operations alone, and trashing Dubai while ignoring all that they have done for us since 9/11 is a prime example of how knee jerk reactionaries can hurt our efforts more than anything the Terrorists could muster
I agree
Media driven fears? No it's been CHINA all along. Don't be fooled by this puny runt in iran, CHINA has 1.3 billion people who believe that THEY will own the 21st century; does iran have a robust space program, does iran own most of america's T bills? No, keep your eye on the true enemy...CHINA!
Look at these numbers and observe something. Look how high they are. You never see numbers this high in Europe or Canada.
There's still some optimism left in America. We like the idea of being able to like others. So much of the rest of the world doesn't.
Then if they were honest they would be for the Iraq war. We need to be there to go after Iran.
According to the latest synchronized troll attack (conveniently timed with the UAE port nonsense) Bush and Amurika is enemy numero uno!!
Your overview is correct.
The 'rats hate 'em all.
No one polled me!
I consider Islam/Muslims as Enemy #1.
An Iran- or any country- devoid of Islam wouldn't be much of a problem, would it?
Good luck in that happening...they are 90%+ Muslim...
It'll get red-hot when Bird Flu hits the US poultry industry. What is/was Bushs' plans, he knew it was coming.
If it were me, I'd ask on TV what the Dems think we ought to do about it before it arrives.
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