After This Entire Iraq Debacle, 40% of Americans Would Support Attack on Iran!

[tritsofme]

The current survey found that 40% believe the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Another 40% disagree and say force should not be used. Republicans, by a 2-to-1 margin, favor the use of force. Democrats, by a similar margin, are opposed. Those not affiliated with either major party are fairly evenly divided.

http://rasmussenreports.com/Political%20Tracking/Dailies/March%202007/iranNuclearThreatAndWar.htm

A huge portion of this country has apparently learned nothing. Unbelievable. Where are these people?

[BOSSHOG]

1. The Jesus loving Pro lifers

who want us to kill every non christian on the planet so we can live in christian peace. The zealots who hate the thought of constitutional liberty for all. The zealots who have been taught to think that the founding fathers intended for us to be governed by leviticus. Idiots. High maintenance idiots.

[aquart]

2. So 60% wouldn't? The majority wouldn't?

[tritsofme]

6. The article said 40% opposed as well.

Presumably the other 20% is undecided.

[DCKit]

3. The Sheeple have Spoken

I put salt on my polls.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. From the comfort of their living room.

[EFerrari]

5. That's just the 30%ers and the Fudge Factor.

Don't buy in. Americans don't want that war.

[Swamp Rat]

7. That's only 320 people.

The polling sample was only 800 people. That is a very small sample considering there are approx. 300 million people living in the USA, and the poll was done by telephone.

[tritsofme]

10. That is pretty standard for a public opinion poll.

With a sample of 800 you can say with 95% confidence that the margin of error is +/- 3%.

It doesn't seem like an outlier either, as the rest of the information in the poll seems to make sense.

[Swamp Rat]

32. Nevertheless, the population sample is very small in comparison to the entire population.

It is a tiny snapshot of Rasmussen's reality, which does not jibe with my visceral experience. The latter, of course, is my bias. ;)

[spanone]

8. Republicans are out of their fucking minds. IMHO

[Ezlivin]

9. "Where are these people" Easy answer...

They are not the ones doing the killing/bombing. They are the ones who are professional spectators. They watch and cheer. They DO NOT participate.

I wish that every news program showed an hour of war every night with no censorship, just pure, unadulterated hell. They should show the most horrific images possible.

Maybe, just maybe, then people would get their fill of war.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Wow--how much of this is actual support, and how much is resignation

that it's going to happen? Once again, the Chimperor and the Dick have managed to scare Americans into believing in pre-emptive war. Iran is YEARS away from being a true nuclear threat, but you wouldn't know it from the media.

[Done]

12. We should conduct a large nationwide poll.

Those who support war with Iran would be drafted to serve in Iraq.

[Red Zelda]

13. Of course

...this is the stupidest country on earth. There are people that want to nuke everybody.
Idiots. Visit central Pa. ... they're everywhere.

[onethatcares]

16. visit central Florida, visit Nebraska

they just want to kill something. Their lives must be short on excitement, or long on fear.

[TwilightGardener]

18. Nebraska has some reasonable people, for a red state. It's just

that those who aren't seem to dominate the Letters to the Editor.

[Nay]

25. Visit Richmond, VA. the mindless idiots are all over the place.

[TwilightGardener]

14. Also, to be fair, some of the top Dem contenders have said that

"all options are on the table" in regards to the nuke thing--If the poll just asked if we should go to war with Iran for any other reason, I'm guessing most folks would say, Hell no!

[endarkenment]

15. Gee I wonder exactly what question they asked?

The link to rasmussen was noticably lacking in any specifics. Anytime I see a poll report that does not include the exact wording of the question asked, I call 'bullshit'.

[iconoclastic cat]

17. Cali? nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. LOL

[indepat]

19. Where are these people? How about this: on psycho a trip to send the US to a hell on earth?

[Bill McBlueState]

20. most Americans aren't anti-war

Most Americans aren't anti-war; they're anti-Iraq-war.

They're opposed to what's happening in Iraq because it's going poorly. They have no moral objection to invading a sovereign nation based on lies. They only object when the illegal invasions don't go so well. They figure we can do an illegal invasion better next time.

[TwilightGardener]

22. Jesus, that's a depressing assessment. But probably true.

[warren pease]

27. Bingo! And...

This is from a thread on Kucinich's calling out Dems for giving BushCo too much time and money re Iraq. I think it's pertinent here:

Courtesy of The Magistrate:

<snip>
It is quite true the people want the occupation of Iraq ended, but the ground upon which most want it ended is rather different from that most who consider themselves to comprise the 'anti-war left' want it ended on. Most who want the venture ended desire this because they have come to perceive it as a failure, and thus necessarily a waste, and even more important, view it as something they do not want their sensibilities assaulted by on the news anymore, because it is not enjoyable, and it is boring.

The largest single bloc of voters comprises people who once supported the war, and now have grown disenchanted with it. The 'anti-war' sentiment among these people is very thin and poorly rooted. They want the matter ended, but in a manner that will allow them to evade acknowledging it as a defeat for the country, which is a thing that would greatly affront their patriotic pride.

The corollary is that the war, and BushCo by extension, would now enjoy significant popular support if things had gone the PNAC way -- a "cakewalk" for the liberators, who would be greeted by grateful flower-bearing Iraqi citizens.
<snip>

Yup. Sounds like the america I know.


wp

[cali]

21. What were the questions?

Were folks informed that Iran is 5 to 10 years away from having a nuke?
Were they asked about a time frame? I think the answere, as always, depend on the questions asked.

[rasputin1952]

23. I guess some people don't ever get war weary, especially when

they don't have to fight in one.

Not quite enough death and destruction for people who should know better.

Let's restart the draft, no exemptions, male & female from 18 to 64, (might as well spare those about to collect Social Security).
There are plenty of non-combat MOS's that can be filled w/the older individuals, supply, drivers, mechanics, etc. That 40% that think war in Iran is a good idea, should be the first to go; find out who they are and scoop 'em up into the system, put them on the front lines....they seem to think they are heroes, let 'em go for it. For those who get drafted, they get $100/month, gotta keep the cost down you know. For those that enlist, normal pay and allowances would apply.

[Initech]

24. Really? Are people really that stupid?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. Erect bogeyman, wave flag, send in the bombers. Works every time.

Throw in an "incident" and the 40% grows to 70%.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[KoKo]

28. MS Corporate Media has been Cookin' on All Burners" to get folks to understand

how important it is for Iraq Nukes and Syrian support for Nasrallah to be STOPPED.

Gotta give it to the Corporate Whore Media...they are the best ever that America has Produced.

[qwlauren35]

30. Aren't we picky!!!

India has them, Pakistan has them, North Korea has them...

...but Iran can't.

Oh brother. Aren't we the great dictators of the world.

It is apparently a "public secret" that Israel has nuclear weapons.

Saudi Arabia has been "secretly" working with Pakistan to develop a nuclear weapons program for the last 3 years.

Libya HAD nuclear weapons. They were nice enough to disarm.

There are games being played here with people who consider the rest of the world to be expendable. And frankly, I don't get it. If nuclear weapons get deployed, who wins????

[Gloria]

31. Are they that scared ALREADY????

[Disturbed]

33. "Are people really that stupid?"

Most Americans are not stupid. Many are ill informed. Most Americans no longer read the News and rely on TV to feed them the news. TV News is RW slanted and presents scant info about almost everything political. I suspect most Americans have no clue what a War with Iran would be like. It would be a huge freakin' catastrophe for most of America, except for the MIC and the Super Rich.