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57% Americans support military action in Iran

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-27 16:33|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The poll also found that 32% of Americans... which pretty much matches the Kos-Dem alliance in numbers.

Just remember 57% support...including Dems who'll say they supported it before they were against it. Heh.

Posted by Greremp Jomons8469 2006-01-27 16:48|| 2006-01-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Unfortunately, with too many Short-Attention-Span Americans the support is all too fickle. I remember support for OIF running near 70% before the MSM and Dem efforts kicked into high gear. I think the support reflects an assumption of any military action being purely air strikes.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-01-27 17:22|| 2006-01-27 17:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd be interested in how many o fht e57% supporting used to support the Iraqi war, but have since lost their ... resolve.

Posted by Bobby 2006-01-27 17:24|| 2006-01-27 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 43% prefer to glow in the dark

Posted by Speting Gleger8891 2006-01-27 17:25|| 2006-01-27 17:25|| Front Page Top

#5 53% support the Iraq effort and 57% want to go after Iran. That's pretty close. This is also from the LA Times, Pravda on the Pacific. If they hadn't oversampled democrats the numbers would be even better. I read this as a pretty strong statement in favor of going after the MM.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-27 17:28|| 2006-01-27 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Good point about the LAT. One would normally need to skew their polls 5-10% towards the conservative perspective to obtain a legitimate reading of public opinion.

Posted by AzCat 2006-01-27 17:40|| 2006-01-27 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Another interesting item in all of this is if Iran had her own "issues" to worry about, things in Iraq would get better as a result.

Posted by RJB in JC MO 2006-01-27 18:31|| 2006-01-27 18:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Check out the Fox poll
NEW YORK Americans think Iran is the country that poses the greatest immediate danger to the United States today, taking over the number one spot from North Korea. A FOX News poll released Thursday shows the public is concerned about Iran attacking the United States with nuclear weapons, and even more concerned about Iran supplying nukes to terrorists.

If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, an overwhelming 91 percent of Americans say they are concerned it would sell them to terrorists, including 68 percent that say they are very concerned.

In addition, eight in 10 Americans are concerned Iran would use nukes to attack a neighboring country (54 percent very concerned), and 73 percent are concerned it would attack the United States (47 percent very concerned).

Iran tops the list when respondents are asked to say which country without being read a list poses the greatest immediate danger to the United States. Today a 28 percent plurality says Iran, up from 18 percent a year ago. North Korea, which was first on last years list, comes in second this time around at 17 percent, down from 26 percent (January 2005). Iraq (16 percent) and China (14 percent) are other common mentions.

Opinion Dynamics Corporation conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News on January 24-25.

Over half of Americans think Iran is either an immediate (16 percent) or near-term threat (40 percent) to the United States, while about a third (34 percent) think it is more likely to be a long-term threat. Few think Iran does not pose a threat at all (7 percent).

Most of the public believes Iran wants to use uranium enrichment for military purposes (82 percent) rather than for the peaceful purposes it claims (8 percent). Furthermore, 68 percent believe Iran currently has a nuclear weapons program, up from 60 percent a year ago (January 2005).

"These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside our boarders," says Chris Anderson, Opinion Dynamics senior researcher. "We havent even finished one war and many already see the potential need for another."

By a wide margin, Americans think Iran is more of a threat to the world than Iraq was before the United States took military action there. Nearly half (47 percent) think Iran is more of a threat than Iraq was, while 25 percent think less of a threat and 19 percent the same.

If diplomacy fails, 59 percent support using "whatever military force is necessary," to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons; however, when presented with specific military options support drops. Some 51 percent support using only air strikes, and 46 percent support using air strikes and ground troops.

A 54 percent majority is confident in the ability of the Bush administration to handle the situation with Iran, while slightly fewer (46 percent) are confident in the ability of the United Nations to handle Iran.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182909,00.htm

Posted by Sherry 2006-01-27 19:49|| 2006-01-27 19:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Goodness - if those numbers rise above 100%, then the Dhimmidonk and RINO Senators might begin to feel that they may possibly have sufficient ass coverage to pick up on the House resolution that would authorize Bush to do something.

Nah.

Posted by .com 2006-01-27 19:59|| 2006-01-27 19:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Let's see....a poll comes out that OVERWHELMINGLY supports military action against Iran and SUDDENLY... the new Dem talking point is that they've always been for being tough on Iran. For the last 24 hours, I've heard the point made at least 5 times that Bush has not been strong enough.

Scary.

Posted by 2b 2006-01-27 21:40|| 2006-01-27 21:40|| Front Page Top

#11 But the moment the shooting actually starts, the Dhimmocrats will be pissing and moaning about what a "unilaterilist cowboy" Bush is. Regardless if he got every nation on Earth short of France and Germany to contribute aircraft for the bombing runs.

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