Bomb Iran, majority of Americans says in new poll

[Robbien]

Source: Raw Story

Despite President Bush's perpetually abysmal approval ratings, his increasingly hostile rhetoric against Iran has drummed up enough fear of a "nuclear holocost" or a World War III that a majority of Americans are in favor of a US strike against the country aimed a curtailing its apparent nuclear ambitions, a new poll shows.

The Zogby International survey shows 52 percent of Americans would support a strike on Iran, while 53 percent expect President Bush to launch such an attack before the end of his second term. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is voters' No. 1 choice to deal with Iran, with 21 percent saying they would like to see her take on Tehran from the White House. Republican Rudy Giuliani was voters' second choice, with 15 percent.

Just 29 percent of Americans think the US should not attack Iran, with one in five people unsure about military action. Of those who would support a strike, 28 percent believe military action should wait until the next president is in office, while 23 percent want to see Bush let lose US missiles against Iran.

. . .

"It is utterly stunning that, after the great difficulties we have clearly faced in Iraq (a situation far from finished, by the way), that an absolute majority would favor a strike on Iran at this time," writes Dr. Steven Taylor at PoliBlog. "Even if we assume that the die-hard 25%-30% who still approve of the way the President is doing his job also are in favor of such a strike, where do the other 27%-22% come from to get the pro-strike total to 52%?"



Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bomb_Iran_majority_of_Americans_says_1030.html

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Just un-effing-believable

[spotbird]

1. God help us all. nt

[Greeby]

2. God help us all? He's the one that got us into this mess nt

[zabet]

3. Don't tell me...

you think Dumbya is God. I know he thinks
he is but, I did not know anyone else did.

[spotbird]

34. No, I mean that if a majority of

Americans believe an attack on Iran is warranted, only God can help us. As a nation we are incapable of helping ourselves, insanity rules.

[indepat]

55. I shan't implore the Almighty to extract us from any mess W gets us in that is in violation of our

law, our Constitution, of international law an/or treaties (the supreme law of the land; that are otherwise illegal, immoral, or inhumane especially when considering that tens of millions of Americans who know/should know of these violation, illegalities, immorality, or inhumanity nonetheless still shill for him/support him and his actions and policies which are in violation of the above.

[wake.up.america]

62. Good luck, America!

[heidler1]

113. The Bush supporters have been both primarily religious and more war like.

Check out the exit polls,2000 and 2004, which show religious affiliation. Bush got the majority of the organized religious vote. Woo woo prediction says the battle of Armageddon is coming. When these stupid predictions cause Innocent people to die it's time to make spreading that crap illegal. Making fun of it needs to be manditory. IMO

[CountAllVotes]

8. what "God" do you speak of?

and where is this "God"?

:dem:

[Teaser]

18. me.

.

[natrat]

17. probably one of those generational things

as in people dont know how shitty war is until they see there arm getting blown off. Vietnam they saw the body bags come off the cargo planes, ww2 husbands did not come home-now war is fun and dropping bombs is like playing basketball at the ymca on saturdays- we could be fucked, of course that seems to be the sick plan

[liberal N proud]

4. The propagandists are doing a very good job.

It is amazing the number of people that think these people are enemy no 1.

[harun]

5. Everyones still drinking the Kool-aid, sometimes I think

we deserve the morons we have running the show.

[tom_paine]

19. You cannot live inside Nazi Germany or Imperial Ameika and not be affected at least a little

by the 24/7 lies, hypocrisy, fraud, theft, murder and tyranny.

Obviously, Nazi Tyranny was much more overt and violent. It doesn't need to be in Amerika 2007, so it isn't.

I don't care how smart or with-it a person is, there is simply no way to flush 100% from our minds. It is designed, like all effective advertising, to work at the suconscious level and create false realities where an implanted itch is "scratched" with the product being sold, in this case Kinder and Genlter Nazism, BushPutinism, or whatever we wish to call the New Totalitarianism until historians give it a name some decades from now.

Not you not me not anyone.

And yes, there can no longer be any doubt that a sizeable minority, if not a large majority, WANTED what Hitler was dishing out, and what Bushler is dishing out even today.

[ideagarden]

54. the media is clearly working

The media is clearly working to follow the objective's of Bush/Cheney to destroying America. Who are the Zogby people anyway? Another agent of hate and vice or a respected news source? I've never heard of them until today and I read 4-6 news sources.

[tom_paine]

145. Actually, Zogby is probbaly the best among the pollsters in terms of reliability

and believability of results.

Zogby has been around quite awhile and you have just missed their existance, it is not that they are a fly-by-night organization or anything.

In the Soviet Union or Imperial Amerika, both so very much with lies as part as their core soul, it is difficult to know what is true and what is half-truth (with certain key aspects removed so as to lead the herd to a predetermined consensus).

I sympathize. And of course, you have to analyze and make your own decisions. But it is my opinion that you are on the wrong track here. Zogby has been around for at least a decade and, among other things, ws the only pollster to predict, correctly, that Gore would win the popular vote in 2000.

It is possible Zogby has been deceived in some way, the Bushies created False Reality Bubbles like you and I shit daily, so it is possibly. It is also possible that Zogby, wittingly or unwittingly (by virtue of Bushie moles and infiltrators) is part and parcel of the Bush Lie Machine.

But I do not believe that to be so.

[arewenotdemo]

147. Mencken would agree

It took just eight decades but H.L. Mencken's astute prediction on the future course of American presidential politics and the electorate's taste in candidates came true:

On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: " . . . all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19824.html

[harun]

148. LOL that's priceless (n/t)

[Canuckistanian]

6. Majority? I thought the MOE was about 3% even for the best pollsters

I'd call this a statistical dead heat.

[shireen]

12. even if it was a dead heat

the fact that so many people think bombing Iran is the right thing to do is shocking!

I like to think they drew on a sample of idiots for the survey, but I doubt it ....

[Robbien]

20. Makes little difference. It is disheartening that anyone other than the dittoheads

voted anything but an emphatic NO on the poll. The number of warmongers should be in the twenties not high forties low fifties.

[Canuckistanian]

111. True, very disheartening

You'd think that Afghanistan and Iraq would give them some clue about what the real motives are here.

And it ain't Peace and Freedom.

[truthisfreedom]

7. I don't know ANYONE who thinks we should bomb Iran. NOBODY in Minneapolis that I've met has told

me that they think it's a good idea. PREPOSTEROUS.

[datavg]

93. That's Probably...

...because you live in Minneapolis.

If you lived in Dallas or Houston or Atlanta, what you're hearing would be very different - especially if you worked for a defense contractor, as many people do in those cities. This is especially the case in Dallas.

[shireen]

9. i'm sick to my stomach

i didn't believe it. So i went to the Zogby site to see for myself. They interviewed 1028 people, and asked 59 questions.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1379
Released: October 29, 2007

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.


Democrats (63%) are most likely to believe a U.S. military strike against Iran could take place in the relatively near future, but independents (51%) and Republicans (44%) are less likely to agree. Republicans, however, are much more likely to be supportive of a strike (71%), than Democrats (41%) or independents (44%). Younger likely voters are more likely than those who are older to say a strike is likely to happen before the election and women (58%) are more likely than men (48%) to say the same – but there is little difference in support for a U.S. strike against Iran among these groups.

N O ! ! !

"we" need to launch a PR campaign against bombing Iran!!! Whatever happened to diplomacy?

N O

B O M B I N G ! ! !

N O !

N O !

N O !

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

84. Ever watch the TV game show - Family Feud?

it goes like this, "We surveyed 600 people with the following question..."
I think they ask the same 600 people for every question.

I really think with matters of war and peace the pollsters keep data on positive and negative opinions. On this poll they very well could have used this type of data.

Unfortunately for a least a year I've noticed 'Bad... Bad..Baaaad Iran' threads here on DU. It's a Bush wet dream with the amount of propaganda on Iran for web surfers.

[TacticalPeek]

10. Oh really? And how many of those can find it on a map?

Once again we see the effect of the modern, desiccated free press.

How many of those who want to bomb a place they couldn't find if their life depended on it also think that Saddam attacked us on 9/11? Same morons fed by the same press run by the same ruling class.

:grr:

[tom_paine]

11. Amerika 2007 is mentally related to Germany 1937

And why not? The Bushies are using essentially the same propaganda techniques begun by Bernays and advanced by Goebels. Why wouldn't the results produce very similar mindsets, mildly different because overt racism and brutal violence would not be accepted, from a PR and marketing standpoint, in this version of rebranding.

[skoalyman]

144. Faux seams to be working over time now repet after me iran bad up is down down iszzz zup

[elehhhhna]

13. how many say "bomb it" when one points out we have

100K+ sitting ducks in Iraq? duh.

[0007]

14. As person that can't form a straight thought or complete a sentence

that makes sense, he has convinced millions of people to bomb a another country?? Oh my fucking goodness!

Some of junior's classics;

* "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe, we are a part of Europe." George W. Bush

* "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."- George W. Bush

* "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. " - George W. Bush

* "For NASA, space is still a high priority." - George W. Bush

* "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." - George W. Bush

* "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. " - George W. Bush

* "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." - George W. Bush

* "My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's not necessarily based in religion. I think there's life there, therefore the notion of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." - George W. Bush

* "It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." - George W. Bush

* "Public speaking is very easy." - George W. Bush

[petepillow]

15. America = Fucked.

The ball is in motion, inertia is strong. Here goes nothin, er, I mean, EVERYTHING!

[Megahurtz]

16. That's gotta be a Fucking Joke.

:mad:

[Squatch]

21. Raw Story = Authoritative source

"nuclear holocost"

"...see Bush let lose US missiles against Iran"

About Raw Story:

We draw upon a panoply of news sources and select those stories we think most intriguing to a audience seeking news underplayed by the mainstream media.

:rofl:

[Robbien]

22. This story has already hit all the right wing blogs. Do you prefer to use

Red State, Little Green Footballs, CNSNews, etal as a linked source here at DU. In a little while AP/UPI will pick up the story but they are so far out of the loop why wait for them.

Raw Story has 90% great investigative work and 10% titillating stories to draw in readers. Opposite of any newsroom mainstream so called media runs.

[Squatch]

24. These are stories that they don't investigate (or proofread, for that matter)

themselves. These are stories that they've drawn together from a "panoply" (lol) of sources and couched as "underplayed".

[Robbien]

25. Nonsence

Is your main goal to besmirch each and every single news source which is not supported by right wing money? Is it your fervent wish that the only source of news available to the American public be that of Fauxnews and Hugh Hewitt and Ann Coulter?

Just keep screaming at the top of your lungs 'fake' when investigative journalists all have to do their best work on the web because news media moguls reject everything without a right wing slant.

[Squatch]

27. Cool your jets, buddy.

Raw story is not a "news source" any more than DU is a "news source". A "news source" is a person/organization who has investigated, researched, written, reviewed, edited, and then published information WITHOUT applying a filter of "stories we think most intriguing" (as per Raw Story's website).

[Robbien]

31. Raw Story does investigate, research, write, review and edit

and about the nonsense of applying filters:

Raw Story says up front it publishes those stories it thinks are most interesting. Each and every newspaper, channel, news site only publishes those stories it feels are most interesting, however they lie and say they cover all the news "fit to print". If the other news sites printed all the news fit to print, the American public would not be the least informed population of the Third World.

[Squatch]

36. They really edit their stories?

Then what, pray tell, is a "holocost" or how would GWB "let lose US missiles against Iran"?

It's bushleague (sic) "journalism" dressed up as authoritative.

[Robbien]

37. Almost every story I've read in the news has typos and mis-spellings

but keep holding Raw Story to a higher standard, and Raw Story has about one hundredth of the budget any other media site enjoys.

But have fun with your bashing.

[Squatch]

41. I'm not bashing, sweetheart.

Just applying a few critical thoughts to the information you put up for consumption. As I see it, the source, and therefore the information, is suspect.

[Robbien]

42. Sure you aren't

by just putting down an unknown poster by using the term "sweetheart" is a classic smarmy tactic of internet bashers.

As I see it, there is something which is suspect here and it is not the thread's news source.

[Squatch]

43. No need to get your panties in a bunch, cupcake.

"smarmy"...LOL.

[Robbien]

44. funny

eom

[ronnykmarshall]

68. Oh now stop that, sugar dumpling!

[Zodiak]

108. Sophistry

There sure are a lot of posters on this site that only want to engage in sophistry, especially lately. It is a waste of time to engage them; ignore at will.

Another favorite is to attack the messenger and ignore the message. what a wonderful way to ensure no productive communication occurs.

If you detect dogged sophistry, ignore the sophist.

[endarkenment]

33. Actually raw story is a news source.

http://rawstory.com/about.html

You do appear to not like raw story, which is fine, but if you think that other more established news sources do not 'apply a filter' on what they think is news you are wrong.

[TroglodyteScholar]

130. You don't think editors at "legitimate" news outlets...

...choose to publish/air based on intrigue/sensationalism? Rarely is coverage ever based on what's most important, that's for sure.

[LSK]

56. then how about the Zogby link?

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1379

[everydayis911]

23. How are we to trust this

I no longer trust anything that comes from the mainstream media even Zogby. They could be bought or forced into lying about this. This assministration is like the Mafia and anyone who disagrees with them are doomed. The only idiots who think we should bomb Iran that I have been in contact with are rethuglicans. They are dumb enough not to realize the consequences of bombing Iran. They have no clue that China and Russia (Which are big according to Bush) are not going to just let us bomb Iran with no retaliation against us. And even if China and Russia don't retaliate we still should NOT bomb Iran

[Andy Canuck]

76. Sadly, it doesn't matter if it is true or not

what matters is that it is now out there to spin and build support for and against war. People still think there are WMD's in Iraq. The RW splashes the lies and the deceptions and leave it up to other news agancies to retract the story. So people watching fox never see the retraction and Fox News says, hey it was retracted in other media, we don't need to. If people don't read and use the tv remote to see other possibilities then the lies are as real as the truth.
'

[aintitfunny]

26. Does anyone know the poll phrasing?

that achieved this bullshit result? Does Zogby have an agenda here?

If this is genuine we can thank our mainstream media for so effectively pushing the Bush agenda.

disgusting and disheartening.

[endarkenment]

30. see my response below. I think this is an intentionally bad poll.

[Massachusetts]

28. BU$HCO Psyops and manipulation of the American Public

by the media and OTHER sources, continues full speed ahead.

Keyword - MANIPULATION

[endarkenment]

29. The question asked is more than a bit of a push.

6. Based on what you know about Iran's development of a nuclear program, how
supportive are you of a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon?

The first four question are not even listed http://www.zogby.com/wf-Zogby-10-29-07.pdf

The framing of this question and the surrounding questions push an assumption that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

[fjc]

74. Does it push that assumption?

I mean, the first part of the question is the assumption, "based on what you know". What does anyone out here or in the general public know but what they hear the talking heads of media and government say? And what are the they for the most part saying? They're telling us we have a good deal to fear from the prospect of Iran getting the bomb, and they're telling we cannot trust what Iran says about their intentions. Take a poll here. Does anyone out here believe either of these is untrue? The last part of the question is where the rubber meets the road. To me, it merely states that if it is true they want and are preparing a bomb, would you support a military strike to stop it? In the context of what we're hearing on the airwaves from just about every responsible party, I'm not a bit surprised at the results, as disheartening that they are.

[endarkenment]

90. let me explain

The question should have been phrased without any additional information, as in:

"Are you in favor of a military strike on Iran?"

Do you see how that eliminates any prejudicial information? How it is a neutral, isolated, framing of the question asked? Everytime a poll adds additional information to a question, such as this one did, red flags should go up and you need to step back and ask what purpose the additional information provided served.

[hisownpetard]

116. That's an important distinction. Thanks. nt

[TroglodyteScholar]

131. Spoken like a true statistician... n/t

[fjc]

138. Yes, I see what you mean.

On the other hand, the question as phrased seems very revealing.

[reggie the dog]

94. look at the end of the zogby poll

The under 30 crowd and the under 35 crowd are grossly under-represented. Would less of these folks support such a war???

[kenfrequed]

100. another

Of many reasons why Polls in general should be ignored.

[Deja Q]

32. Depends on the poll, and there are many - from many sources.

That's the trouble with polls. Until every vote is counted, one must surely consider the source biased?

Mind you, 300 million Americans, it's easier to put up a web link and pray your favorite visitors vote the way they usually do. :D

[Truth2Tell]

40. Is that photo in your sig line

of the Iranian Nuke program?

[fed-up]

35. I say B*ll-f*cking Sh*t-no one I know thinks we should start WWIII...nt

[Romis]

70. I agree

These polls are fixed. Since they can engineer elections, they can engineer polls.
That is the one and ONLY thing I go along with the idiot on. He doesn't believe in polls.

[BattyDem]

38. Are you fucking kidding me???

:grr: :grr: :grr:

What is wrong with this country? :shrug:

On edit: How many of those people are willing to go or send a loved one to do the job? :eyes:

[The Wielding Truth]

39. It's like mass hysteria. Mob mentality. Where is the wisdom and

the common sense. They are like a bunch of lemmings running off a cliff!

They need deprogrammed or they need to live in a war zone for a while.:scared:

[mile18blister]

45. Warmongers should look at SoCal wildfire pictures.

That should give them some idea of the horror * has unleased on Iraq and wants to unleash on Iran.

[me9399]

46. these idiots should also be shown

the 1984 British film "Threads".

[mark414]

47. just when you think we can't get any dumber

fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice...shame on...shame on...won't get fooled again?

[TheLastMohican]

48. The war is fun

as viewed on the TV-screen. I mean the youngsters like stuff blown to pieces as long as it is on TV. Hollywoodish movies are partially to blame - the "bad guys" are always either russian, or arabs, or chinese, or some other asian types. Insert the necessary nationality.
I haven't seen so much bigotry in a nation comprised of so many different religious and nationality backgrounds in a very long time, WTF happened to this country?

Vietnam was different, the draft ensured that your arse was on the line along with the guy next to you. Now, that guy next to you can go to war and die and you would pretend like nothing really happened. Who cares? It is a war for those at the bottom of a food chain.

[Vidar]

49. Very depressing to find that result from a Zogby poll.

[TwilightGardener]

50. Didn't Cheney say he didn't need more than a third of the country's support for

bombing Iran? Well, he has a BIG green light now, doesn't he? Stupid fucking morons.

[robertpaulsen]

51. If this poll is accurate, maybe America deserves a draft.

Stupid fucking sheeple. The Bushbots, while I loathe them with every fiber of my being, I can at least understand. But the 22-27% who don't approve of the Chimp and still believe his terra fear-mongering?! My fucking head is exploding!

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[toadzilla]

52. were screwn.

:-(

[BridgeTheGap]

53. Anyone watch "Showdown with Iran" on Frontline/PBS last night?

It was informative, if a little slanted.
The part that got me the most was how Iran made overtures to the U.S., helping in Afghanistan and the willingness to help overthrow Saddam.
The neo-cons really have it in for Iran. This poll won't help matters.

[LSK]

57. I saw it, was disappointed at no mention of the IAEA

[BridgeTheGap]

59. Yeah, that is a rather large omission

When they were in the mosques chanting "death to America / Israel", I really tried to look into the faces of those people and see if I could discern whether they meant it or not. So many of them looked like they were just saying it because they were supposed to but didn't really have looks of hatred on their faces.

[DLnyc]

58. In stark contrast to other polls

From PollingReport.com, recent polls on the subject of Iran:

http://www.pollingreport.com/iran.htm

Some examples:

CNN Oct. 12-14 2007:
If the U.S. government decides to take military action in Iran, would you favor or oppose it?
Oppose 68
Favor 29

CBS News/New York Times Poll. Sept. 4-8, 2007
Which comes closer to your opinion? Iran is a threat to the United States that requires military action now. Iran is a threat that can be contained with diplomacy now. OR, Iran is not a threat to the United States at this time
Military Action Now 9
Diplomac Now 59
Not a Threat 24
Unsure 8


And many more

Zogby poll seems QUITE INACCURATE!!

edit to add: Also, variation between polls shows that question wording has a huge effect on results. It is probably more meaningful to look at trends over time of responses to the same question from the same pollster, than to focus on a single, anomalous, poll.
Personally, it appears much more likely to me that Americans are strongly OPPOSED to military action in Iran at this time, and growing more so.

[lyonspotter]

60. It's a bullshit poll

Propaganda. Nuff said.

[YOY]

63. Amen

Stangly phrased or bogus it is not applicable to reality.

[Tab]

61. What the FUCK is WRONG with this country????

I'm not living where I grew up. That much is clear.

[Mark D.]

64. Dennis Kucinich Again

He's a voice of reason on it. In a speech he gave he spoke of how if we have an attack
on Iran of any size, our troops are sitting ducks, totally stressed out...and nearly wiped
out already in that Iraqi quagmire. Iran has the capacity to not only sink several of the
US ships nearby, but raze our soldiers in Iraq in massive numbers. Don't like 3,000 dead
- how bout 30,000! Or many more. To a point that we can't even rely on military due to
the loss. Can't have a draft. Meanwhile, to plan, Blackwater is outta Iraq and here w/us
in the US, ready to lock up the near 50% who don't want to bomb Iran if they disgaree.

Private armies, guided by the root of all evil, money. Bringing the war home and doing it
to us here instead of them over there (sound familiar?) This is huge. The vast majority
of those supporting bombing likely are pro-keep the troops there folk. Many may have
kids there now. This message must be delivered. It's their kids who will die, or there
will be a lot fewer troops to support after Iran fires back. Oh, and you know they'll
send non-nuclear fire into Israel who will fire back with nukes with our blessings &
likely support. And Bush will have his little WW3 & military rule here to boot. It is
not looking good. They better seal the fucking Canadian border if we participate
in any kinda nuke dropping in the Middle East as I'll no longer be a US citizen...

[paparush]

89. THAT is exactly what Bush/Cheney/Kristol et al want...

They are more than willing to sacrifice 30,000 American lives. Those won't be lives of the top .001 percent, so they don't count. They aren't real human beings to the Neocons. WW3 means that Bush invokes his Directive and remains king. He's challenging the Congress, the People, and the rest of the CIVILIZED world, and he KNOWS we'll blink first.

I don't know if we'll all live long enough to cure the world of this Neocon disease.

[Rottenmac]

65. Thank goodness...

he doesn't listen to polls or we'd REALLY have something to worry about. :spank:

But then, If he DID, we wouldn't be in Iraq anymore. :grr:

I'm so confused. :wtf:

[lunatica]

66. I don't ever believe Zogby or politically motivated polls...

It's all about how the questions are asked, and who is being asked. They ask something like "Would you be willing to bomb Iran if found out that were going to use a nuclear weapon against Israel or an American ally or the US?" Or they ask a series of questions that lead to that conclusion.

Only idiots would say no under those circumstances, At this point the 'majority' of Americans know better. The dead giveaway is that it simply isn't consistent with the polls that show Bush's tanked reputation practically in the negative numbers and all the other polls that show the American people are waking up. And Zogby is just as biased as any other poll, name recognition not-withstanding.

:puke:


edited for wrongful use of vocabulary

[backscatter712]

106. Exactly. This is a push poll.

On top of being a poll designed to manipulate public opinion rather than measure public opinion, polls like this are commissioned by the Bush Administration and the right wing think tanks. And poll results like these are only published if they promote the Bushco party line. Otherwise it stays secret.

Manufactured consent indeed...

[Baby Snooks]

67. What percentage of the 52% are Democrats?

I find it hard to believe this is truly representative of the country unless there are some Democrats who believe war is the way to achieve world peace. I'd put a question mark at the end of that sentence but I'm afraid of the answer.

[Joanne98]

69. This is so depressing. Haven't they learned anything!

[Andy Canuck]

71. WTF???!!!

Maybe they are right and the Western World really is The Great Satan.

[tavalon]

72. Don't those morons understand where that nuclear holocaust will come from?

No, clearly, they don't.

[Mrspeeker]

73. Amerika

"omg, like totally bomb him"
stupid country!

[sakabatou]

75. We're screwed.

I hope the minority rises up and educates this minority.

[RoccoR5955]

77. Who the heck do they poll?

It seems to me that there is something wrong with this poll. I cannot believe that half of the American Public thinks we should enter another war. This is simply stupid, stupid, stupid. Diplomacy is what we need, not war. Bushco, Inc.'s fear card must be playing out well, if half of these people say they want war. This is simply preposterous.


Then again, stupidity is the most abundant element in the universe.

[LynzM]

80. Had the exact same thought - Who ARE these people?

Who really thinks that this is a good plan!?!? Unbelievable! Unless they're just making up poll numbers, which I sure as hell wouldn't put past anyone, at this point.

[still_one]

78. Unbelievable. Sorry, but we deserve exactly what we get

and that not only includes an endless war, it includes lack of healthcare, people losing their homes, jobs offshored, a woman's right to choose, and the replacement of science with extreme religious dogma

If the Democrats lose in 2008, that will be the final straw for me

Let's see what they say when they are paying 5 bucks a gallon for oil. I say screw-um. Unfortunately, a lot of innocents are going to get hurt because of this, but until we REALLY hit bottom, and it affects people directly, NOTHING WILL CHANGE

[librechik]

79. still not seeing the actual text of the question

If it were something like: "If Iran is shown to have a nuclear program that threatened the US, would you be in favor of a preemptive strike" I can believe that %52 would vote yes.

[thunder35]

81. THEY ARE CRAZY

[orleans]

82. my god! what the fuck is WRONG with people??? n/t

[amb123]

83. THIS IS NATIONAL SUICIDE!

WAKE UP AMERICA! ATTACKING IRAN WILL BE NATIONAL SUICIDE!

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Vinca]

85. Maybe it's time for a draft to knock some sense into people.

Given our Iraqi adventure, this poll is hard to believe.

[Up2Late]

86. This survey is totally worthless, for several reasons...

First, the conclusion they are drawing is to a hypothetical situation,
"...52% - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon..."

The question is based on the ASSUMPTION that Iran IS actually BUILDING a nuclear weapon, currently they are NOT. Currently, they don't even have "the knowledge" of how to build one, let alone, have the parts and nuclear material to make one. The really scary thing is, *Bush, in his "...you don't want WWIII..." speech, drastically lowered the bar to "...preventing Iran from gaining 'the knowledge' needed to build a nuclear weapon..."

Second, Check out the "Margin of Error!" 3.2%!!!
That means it really is 48.8% to 55.2%, so it could be as low as 48.8%, but could be as high as 55.2% (which is kind of scary) but then we come to point Three!

Three, the calls are all made to:

1) Land-lines (NO Cell Phones, so few "younger voters")

2) People who will probably don't screen their calls or have Caller ID. Anyone here fall into that category, that you will still pick up any and all phone calls?

3) The survey was

59 questions!!! "...approximately? 59 questions?"

I don't know about you, but if Zogby called and told me ahead of time the poll was 59 questions, I'd say, "No Thanks!" And if they did NOT tell me ahead of time that it was 59 questions, I'm sure I'd tune-out and probably stop listening to what the interviewer was asking after about the first 30 questions!

Anyone here ever paid full attention though ALL 59 questions from a telephone interviewer!?!? Just the thought of it makes me think the movie "Airplane," where Robert Hays' character starts telling his life stories in "flash-backs", but when you come back to the present, the person has killed themselves!

Surveys like this are Crap!

The Zogby Methodology is below:

Released: October 29, 2007

Survey Methodology (Zogby America Likely Voters) 10/24/07 thru 10/27/07

Zogby International conducted a telephone survey of (likely voters).

The target sample is <1028> interviews with approximately <59> questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone cd’s of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. Up to six calls are made to reach a sampled phone number. Cooperation rates are calculated using one of AAPOR’s approved methodologies<1> and are comparable to other professional public-opinion surveys conducted using similar sampling strategies.<2> Weighting by is used to adjust for non-response. The margin of error is +/- 3.2 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

Zogby International’s sampling and weighting procedures also have been validated through its political polling: more than 95% of the firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.

[yurbud]

87. moral of the story: a lot of people still get their news from TV

[Diclotican]

88. Robbien

Robbien

If US are to attack Iran, over the same false claims they have used against Iraq, then you are really out in the woods.. Really, absolutely out in the woods...

But then, even that IAEA have claimed that they have _no_ prove to say Iran are in the prosess of producing Nuclear Weapon is not been innformed to the american public..

So I guess, US are on the road to war - again, and this time mr Bush are catable of using nucks.. And If US are going to attack Iran, they wil be werry alone.. Not even the Brittish are going to walk the road down to a hopeless war in Iran, as they are doing it in Iraq..

Maybee a war with Iran, Iraq and a lot of other places are the start of the end of USA as a superpower..? All "superpowers" in the history, have at some point in their history been to aggresive, and have started a war, they cant win... If US are going to war with Iran, withouth a DAM GOD REASON the rest of the world wil go against US.. Maybee not military, but with the debt burden US have today, we can wage war agains the old US without a patron been used.. Just trow enough dollar in the bin,and not paying american products.. The most of US technology can be build oter places.. Even rocket tecknology are not the domain of US soley anymore.. Even the Chinese have some "interestning" in the making.. And Your Titan V Rockets, are using a 30 year old USSR product.. The rocket engines is a derative of a sovjet product from the 1970s.. In fact the russians are getting alot of free repotation, becouse of the Titan V rockets.. (the sivilians one, not the military one)...

I fear that if USA are going to war in Iran, they wil face a enemy they just dosent know how to defeat.. Yes you can bomb the fasilitetes to smal pieces but you cannot win the "heart and mind" as the US was trying in Iraq, with blowning up building over the whole places.. If US are going to to war, then United States of America wil face the rest of the world, not as friends, not as outright enemies, but maybee as a country they dosent want to visit, to trade with, to be friends with anymore..

And if this Administration REALLY ARE USING NUCLEAR WEAPON.... Then the whole world are going to react.. Then US have _no right_ to use nuclear weapon.. Specially against a nation who havent been to war with USA the last 231 year.. But have been attaced many times, from the great powers.. Most known UK and USA.. And Russia then... but that is more than 100 year ago..

IF US are to Use nuclear weapon, my fear is that you wil be verry isolated indeed.. Maybee even the UN vil relocate, to a more friendly are of the world..

But what I really fear, is that if US are using nuclear weapon, are that other nations wil do the same - against "american interst".. What that mean I dont know.. But the first use of Nuclear weapon today, wil do more harm than good.. And if you really belived that "old europe" was angry before the Iraqi war.. Belive mee, after a nuclear strike against Iran, I fear that millions wil demostrate, both in "new europe and old europe" against the nuclear use... USE of Nuclear weapon is just not a livable option, if the Administration then is not totaly mad...
They must KNOW THAT EVEN THE TREATH OF NUCLEAR WEAPON IS SOMETING THE REST OF THE WORLD WIL RESIST, EVEN THAT IT MEAN SOME UGLY THING...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language.

[Turbineguy]

91. Maybe it's simply

time for Iran to come to grips with the fact that the US is in the hands of crazy fuckers and to stop this stupid shit of provoking them. I mean how big a problem is it to delay some program until the nutcases leave the Whitehouse?

The conventional street wisdom is "Don't fuck with the crazy guy".

[happygoluckytoyou]

92. DID SOMEONE SAY BULLSHIT

IN NO WAY IS THIS TRUE----

---------OH WAIT..... HERE ARE THE POLL QUESTIONS----->

1) YOU ARE WALKING ALONG AND A NUKE FROM IRAN IS FLYING TOWARD YOUR HEAD.... SHOULD WE ATTACK IRAN

2) WHAT RHYMES WITH I-CAN AND IS A PLACE WE MIGHT WANT TO BOMB

3) UNSCRAMBLE THIS PUZZLE------> I A R N

4) YOU ARE WATCHING FOX NEWS AND.... OH YOU DON'T WATCH FOX NEWS... NEXT CANDIDATE FOR THE POLL PLEASE

[happygoluckytoyou]

95. LET ME REPLY TO MYSELF-----> BULLSHIT AGAIN !!!!!

IN A RECENT POLL OF MALE WHITE SUPREMIST FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN MEMBERS OF THE NRA..... WHEN ASKED WHAT THEY WOULD WANT TO DO IF WE WERE BOMBED BY IRAN..... THEY SAID.....

MORE POLL QUESTIONS--->

1) WHAT IS JOHN MCCAIN'S FAVORITE SONG

2) IN A POLL OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE CELL PHONES, AND STILL BELIEVE THAT DINOSAURS COEXISTED WITH ADAM AND EVE...



---------------------FOR THE LOVE OF CRAP WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ZOGBY TO START USING A POLLING METHOD WHICH INCLUDED SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN ------ AFTER ------ THE BEATLES WERE BORN.....

WHEN I ASK MY 93 YEAR OLD GRANDFATHER HE SAYS BOMB EVERYONE SO HE WON'T BE LONELY IN HEAVEN...

GEORGE THE BUSH SAYS HE TALKS TO GOD AND IS AWAITING THE RAPTURE...

---------------HOW ABOUT POLLING SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY WANTS TO BE ALIVE IN 10 YEARS

[Vilis Veritas]

98. I'LL SAY IT WITH YOU - BULLSHIT.

This is a BUSH-HIT...

IRAN is being set up.

[Flabbergasted]

142. I agree. I just cannot believe that this is accurate.

[Vilis Veritas]

96. 1 word - BULLSHIT...

This is not reality.

This is propaganda.

PERIOD.

[Danieljay]

97. This is propaganda bullshit. This cannot be true. No effing way. n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

99. HEY BUSH... I GOT YOUR POLE RIGHT HERE

god am i pissed off at this----

never posted so many in a row before----

WHAT A BUNCH OF HOGWASH BEING PUT OUT BY THE GOP KILL MACHINE TO TRY TO JUSTIFY THEIR UPCOMING STRIKE ON IRAN...


------WELL IT WAS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED... WE JUST CHECKED ZOGNUTS AND PRESSED THE RED BUTTON

------WHAT THE HELL.... HILLARY SAID SHE FAVORED CALLING THEM TERRORISTS

----------------------------------PACK OF DUMBFUCKS

[onehandle]

101. Bomb China.

They have operable nukes and missiles, hold our debt, and poison us with their sub-standard Wal-Mart designed products.

Bomb them now before they are our unquestioned masters in twenty to thirty years.

Hey, smirk! They're commies. What are you waiting for?


Pussy.

[Highway61]

102. I don't believe it!!!!!!!!!

Those numbers are pulled out of someones butt...How DARE they even take a poll on this shit. It like Junior's "approval" rating...I find it hard to believe there are even 75 people in this whole country who still thinks he doing a "good" :puke: job.

If they even dare to tread water on this Iran crap...then start a draft...NOW. See how fast we change gears...The rich "not my kid" bastards will back pedal real quick.

[windoe]

103. These polls are total propaganda

I cannot for one second believe that 52% of Americans want another war--hello!! As the Patriot Act was passed, 'a majority of Americans polled would gladly give up civil rights for security' ----Remember that??? Gods help us, I am praying for PEACE. Please let us all wake up and prevent WWIII !!
What REALLY pisses me off is that these 'polls' are used to fake American consent to what is apparently a done deal. They are trying to make it look like they are following the wishes of the People, when it is the other way around. Curses!!!

[rAVES]

104. My god.. America is about to be the unrivaled, most hated country on earth.

( I should say I dont for a second believe these polls, but the end result will be the same)_

[lovuian]

105. ITs a Lie I haven't heard anybody where I live say bomb Iran

Zogby is lying

If it is true then Americans shall reap what they sow

[Vilis Veritas]

107. 1028 people...that was the sample of 'likely voters'...

Likely voters...this is a loaded poll.

The target sample is <1028> interviews with approximately <59> questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone cd’s of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges.

http://www.zogby.com/methodology/readmeth.dbm?ID=1226

1028 people polled and that means a majority of Americans - ALL 290,000,000 - want war with Iran...right...

This is the kind of shit 'Dictators in Waiting' dream of...

[ElboRuum]

109. I'm surprised this shocks anyone.

The capacity of America to be motivated to aggression on the mere basis of fear should never, under any circumstances, be underestimated. The fact that this continues to apparently defy logic and boggle some as a result is only because people are still in denial about how fear plays upon a human's tendency to be illogical. Human beings seem to react first and think it through later. It just seems to be how we're all wired.

[windoe]

112. shock and awe worked the first time...

I think this time they are totally faking American consent, it is another ploy. Now the ball is in our court, will Americans do anything even though we know we are being lied to??

[ElboRuum]

117. Depends on the lie...

If it confirms their worst fears, yes, apparently so.

[windoe]

119. How come Venezuelans and Ubekistanians

head to the streets en masse when there is a bogus election or a coup has been uncovered? There is something about our culture that has primed us for this takeover. I just want to understand---what can help Americans overcome this conditioning of mass fear and empower ourselves? God, now is the time to figure this out!!

[CRH]

129. "There is something about our culture that has primed us for this takeover" ...

That something is we are comfortably distracted by our consumption, which comes before everything, including being a part of an informed citizenry. What would the majority rather watch, American Idol, MTV, CSI, NASCAR, the NFL, fill in the blank; or PBS? How many magazine and newspaper articles does the average American read in a week, and, How many music videos and cell phone calls does it take to exceed the time it took to read those articles?

There is a lot of distraction and people are addicted to 'feel good' right now entertainment. Gratification before responsibility. Our consumption feeds our distraction. But not all is lost! The next entertainment might be another invasion, whoopee, and the masses can learn geography when they are shown the location of the 'evil doers' country.

[windoe]

121. edited

double post

[Prophet 451]

110. THAT'S IT, I'M OUTTA HERE!

I'm getting a shuttle to the first class-M planet I can find, this species is too fucking stupid to survive.

If anyone wants to join me, you'll need at least an average IQ (or recognised disability).

[hisownpetard]

114. Wha-a-a-a-a-a-a-t??????????? Please, oh please, let me have read this wrong.

[noel adamson]

115. We should be marching on the propaganda machine...

...millions should be surrounding FOX "news" buildings and the other outlets of the corporatist propaganda machine. People might be forgiven for being trusting and gullible but the misinformation is conscious and a major component of cold blooded murder.

[ShortnFiery]

123. We need to have "teach ins" highlighting Orwell's 1984.

:scared: :nuke:

[windoe]

118. Fool us once, shame on you....

But.....Fool us twice---shame on US all!!! This is what I am feeling, ashamed that such warmongers are in charge and we apparently have not been able to do ANYTHING about it.
~~~IMPEACH NOW!~~~~~~

[Brrrp]

135. Fool me twice...uh...uh...ya can't fool me. --G.W. Bush nt :)

[redqueen]

120. I hope the polls aren't trustworthy...

here we go again.

[ShortnFiery]

122. I don't believe it!

There's lies, damn lies, and corporate sponsored poll results. :grr:

[CRH]

124. Talk about following like a flock of sheep, ...

If this poll is anywhere near accurate, then John Q Citizen is pathetic, and may the citizens receive the just deserts of their waring Karma.

I wonder the results of a poll asking if the MAD policy of the Cold War, might be a better alternative.

Pakistan is not known for their stability, but seem to control their urges knowing certain retaliation will repay nuclear aggression. It is a country filled with Islamic fundamentalists, that has backed through the ISI, the fundamentalist Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.

If this poll is accurate, the mass media had better present some alternative discussion of remedies. A nuclear Iran can be deterred just as a nuclear Korea, they just can not be invaded as easily when we fancy.

[windoe]

125. this story got bumped

too hot?

[Auntie Bush]

126. I've come to the conclusion that Americans are really stupid!

Of course I really knew that already when they voted for bush* TWO times.

[ShortnFiery]

127. No, with respect Auntie, Americans have been *made stupid* by the Fifth Column - The USA's M$M.

Yes, I consider the USA's whorish Corporate Media as nothing less than TRAITORS to our beloved Constitution. :thumbsdown:

I wish that I could come up with a more derogatory word than whores? Perhaps ghouls? They are pure evil and will help foment a bombing of Iran which will, no doubt, OPEN UP THE GATES OF HELL. :nuke:

No, I don't blame the average hard working American for one moment. People are struggling with 2, 3 or more jobs just to make ends meet. I blame both The GUTLESS and MORALLY BANKRUPT POLITICIANS and their cheerleaders in the Corporate M$M. They are f**king corrupt beyond any semblance of fair play and moral treatment of "The People." They betray The American People. If there is a just God, the leaders of these bloated corporations and paid-off complicit politicians will burn in The Seventh Ring of Hell for All Eternity. :evilgrin:

[Toucano]

140. That's not exactly a contradiction.

If you MADE me angry, I am angry.

If working in the sun MADE me thirsty, I am thirsty.

If you MADE me stupid, I am stupid.

The American People ARE stupid.

Made that way, born that way, turned that way with a ray gun. The result is the same.

They're stupid.

[DLnyc]

128. Not really a representative question

Apparently the question was:

"Based on what you know about Iran's development of a nuclear program, how supportive are you of a U.S. military strike to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon?"

How many would answer yes if the question was phrased
"Based on the what you know about the lack of evidence that iran has any nuclear weapons program at all, how supportive are you of a U.S. military strike which, according to the Bush propaganda apparatus, would be aimed at preventing iran from developing a nuclear weapon (although many others believe it would be aimed at keeping oil transactions in dollars)?"

Since also, as noted in my previous post and documented here: http://www.pollingreport.com/iran.htm, other polls show Amevicans quite strongly OPPOSED to any attack on iran (and particularly opposed to an attack BY BUSH), I would say the combination of a conservative sample and a manipulative question make this result, to use a technical term, bullshit.

note: to get info (from Zogby) about questions and sample demographics, go to http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1379 and click on link at the bottom of the page, where it says: " Topline data is available here. "

[ryanmuegge]

132. Just remember what y'all learned in Vietnam and Iraq II: it isn't as much fun when they shoot back.

[BluePatriot]

133. ...

Actually there are plenty who want to bomb them (red state neighbors) But the "above-average" folks here know it would be strategic suicide and prefer wait and see...

I think a lot of people are in collective denial about our weak position to to ANYTHING diplomatic or militarily against Iran. I wouldn't call it at 50 percent though. However -- maybe we all need to conclude sometimes the Internet is a self-reinforcing bubble and we are pretty out of touch with how the average person thinks. Or the poll is rigged. Or a little of both.

Yeah, I need to move (Texas) And yeah...we are screwed...

[Martin Eden]

134. Fool me twice -- won't get fooled again?

Apparently some don't listen to * closely enough.

[superconnected]

136. Cause we're doing SOOO well in Iraq, lets go bomb another country

Um, what did iran DO to us again...?

[ohio2007]

137. with all these "cry wolf" invasion suggestions the past three years.....

Zogby pollsters probably ran a poll that had a choice;

"Shit or get off the pot"

[Toucano]

139. Witness the power of the Nuclear Boogyman

Does al qaeda have a downloadable enlistment form?

If they do, the server's about to get very busy.

[Andrushka]

141. I think the reaction of most here

is summed up by this standard DU smilie::banghead:

Un-fricken-believeable.

[vssmith]

143. I just dont believe the accuracy of this

Either the polling is flawed or the report is inaccurate.

[april]

146. I don do not believe that ..the poll has to be wrong !

[Bryn]

149. I am not going to believe this as true

This is propaganda. It's very hard to trust polls these days.

[mainer]

150. I thought Zogby was pretty reliable (?)

During elections past, Zogby even tended to be more liberal than the others. What happened?

[burrowowl]

151. OMG!

Can't people put 2 and 2 together?

:scared:

[IndianaGreen]

152. Then we deserve to be destroyed as a nation

for that is one of the consequences of our attacking Iran.

People should listen to Joe Biden's warnings about this folly, than to Bush and Hillary war rhetoric.