[lbo-talk] 57% back hit on Iran

[Gary Mongiovi]

Depressing, of course. No doubt the presumption most people have is that hitting Iran would involve aerial attacks on nuclear facilities without any ground war. Probably they are right about this, given how thinly stretched US forces are. 
 
The poll, I gather, didn't ask whether people would support an attack on Iran without UN approval, though it does say they have a strong preference for the US working with allies. It's unclear to me what that means in practical political terms. I suspect that the Bushies would be able to get away with massively bombing a few sites they label nuclear weapons facitlities and that there would be high tolerance in the US for whatever "collateral damage" ensues.
 
Now would probably be a good time for people to start talking about what consequences such attacks would have even without a groundforce invasion.
 
Gary 
 
   
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Los Angeles Times - January 27, 2006

57% Back a Hit on Iran if Defiance Persists
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.

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