A majority of likely voters – 52% – would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.
The survey results come at a time of increasing U.S. scrutiny of Iran. According to reports from the Associated Press, earlier this month Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran of "lying" about the aim of its nuclear program and Vice President Dick Cheney has raised the prospect of "serious consequences" if the U.S. were to discover Iran was attempting to devolop a nuclear weapon. Last week, the Bush administration also announced new sanctions against Iran.
When asked which presidential candidate would be best equipped to deal with Iran – regardless of whether or not they expected the U.S. to attack Iran – 21% would most like to see New York U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton leading the country, while 15% would prefer former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and 14% would want Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain in charge. Another 10% said Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would be best equipped to deal with Iran, while Republican Fred Thompson (5%), Democrat John Edwards (4%) and Republican Mitt Romney (3%) were less likely to be viewed as the best leaders to help the U.S. deal with Iran. The telephone poll of 1,028 likely voters nationwide was conducted Oct. 24-27, 2007 and carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points.
This is just fucking embarrassing!
How stupid are we? Can nobody identify the pattern? We are so conditioned by the Bush administrations Pavlovian fear mongering that we automatically start hating anybody they tell us to hate.
The fact that the Iranians have made NO significant progress toward acquiring nuclear energy, not to mention nuclear weapons, seems to be beside the point. And how can this not remind Americans of how we accused Saddam of having weapons that he said he did not have, and the inspectors said he did not have?
Do you remember how that turned out?
He did not turn out to have them!
Come on people stop allowing yourself to be led around by the damn nose! You are intelligent beings! Use your brains!
One needs to be very aware that these polls are not always prepared in an independent and unbiased manner.
ReplyDeleteThese are a part of the "creation of a myth" device that is the driving neoconservative force.
Well I certainly HOPE they are not accurate, because this one really sent a chill up my spine.
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