[lbo-talk] 57% back hit on Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug posted:

> 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.
>
> The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of  
> Americans favor military intervention if Iran's Islamic government  
> pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
<snip>
> Support for a potential military confrontation with Iran was  
> strongest among Republican respondents, among whom 76% endorsed the  
> idea. But even among Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the war  
> in Iraq, 49% supported such action.


Too many people emphasized the idea that Iraq had no WMD, so the war  
was not worth it, and now we got a blowback, for that idea suggests  
its opposite: a war would be worth fighting if Washington's enemy  
were actually trying to build WMD.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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