Poll: 55 percent of Americans support Israeli strike on Iran.
By on Aug 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Poll: 55 percent of Americans support Israeli strike on Iran.
A recent poll released by the Israel Project claims that 55 percent of Americans would approve of the “United States and its allies making targeted conventional military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities.” That number rises to 63 percent if economic and diplomatic sanctions fail and Iran acquires nuclear capability. The Israel Project released the findings at a press conference this week with pollster Frank Luntz, who suggested that the reason for the high numbers was simply that “Iran scares people.” Still, there was a great deal of support for diplomacy, “with 62 percent saying an ‘opportunity for a diplomatic solution still exists.’”
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Huh?
Who do these idiots think they’re fooling?
Or talking for?
August 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am“United States and its allies making targeted conventional military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities.”
The not so funny thing is Iran doesn’t have any nuclear weapons facilities. All of their work is allowed under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:23 amsad that this many people support aggression and ignore the fact that Iran possesses no nuclear weapons and the “quote” from Iran’s leader was mistranslated
It must be that ‘librul media’ at work again
August 29th, 2008 at 10:23 amPoll: 55 percent of Americans support Israeli strike on Iran.
- - These are the people who think Israel will be doing our dirty work for us and we’ll get off completely unscathed. I’m pretty sure most of that 55% think Obama is a Muslim too.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:24 amI didn’t realize that 55% of us are so stupid.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:30 amI had thought the number was about 29%.
Oh, I see now it was a Frank Luntz project.
I was just wondering last night where that jerk was lurking — now I know.
So, I guess these same 55% support $10+ a gallon of gas?
August 29th, 2008 at 10:31 amAnd how many of the 55% can locate Iran on the map?
August 29th, 2008 at 10:34 amSo, I guess these same 55% have their head up their ass?
August 29th, 2008 at 10:34 am55 percent? I call bullsh*t.
It doesn’t fit with the 68%% who want us out of Iraq.
Plus, look who is sponsoring the poll - Israelis.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:36 amI hope and pray that the results of the survey say more about how the question was phrased than about how the public feels.
This is very troublesome and speaks to the very machinations I am worried about as the GDumbya/Darth Cheney regime enters its death throes.
This is exactly the kind of foolishness that I can imagine them engaged in right now. The smell of desperation hangs like a stench over the White House. And this would be a desperate act.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:36 amGosh, I wonder where that 55% came from. Let me guess:
1. Luntz poll means that about 20% came from questions designed to lead them that way and tilted pool composition.
2. About 20% more came from irrational fear once again created by King George and the RNC.
Hard to imagine that the Iranians were out in the streets demonstrating in support if the US after 9/11 with a very popular and moderate president who was beginning to really undermine the religious rulers. But thanks to King George and his Axis of Evil speech, we were able to turn that all around. Another success like N. Korea.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:39 amThere is no war/bombing here unless we in the west choose to.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:40 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtw5Zy2M6rk
I guess 55% are hooked on irrational fear and would probably eat dog turds if told that would make them safe.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:47 amI don’t give a flying fcuk what Isreal THINKS U.S. citizens want.
They also wanted us military involved in the Mid-East.
Why did Arab’s attack the U.S. on 9/11 anyway????
August 29th, 2008 at 10:47 amThe Israel Project released the findings at a press conference this week with pollster Frank Luntz, who suggested that the reason for the high numbers was simply that “Iran scares people.”
I think a better explanation for the results is that Luntz manipulated them. Luntz is the guy who said if you ask ten questions in a poll and you don’t like the answers to two of them, just treat it like a lawyer and only use the other eight. He is a biased, conservative, Republican pollster, and a master at manipulating language. He helped Newt Gingrich come up with the list of words to use when talking about your political opponents (like “sick” and “pathetic”.) And he knows how to frame questions to get the results you want. [For example: Do they define in the question what they mean by the word “support”, or do they just let people define it themselves and, in effect, answer a question they are asking themselves?]
August 29th, 2008 at 10:49 amAmerica is either sloshed on the kool aid or the Israeli Project has spun and twisted its survey for reason.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:49 amPerfect fodder to give gwb reason to move foward. He needs no other justification to drop the big one, as a spun survey would serve his limited reasoning.
Limited or targeted strikes won’t be in the cards. Remember what he thought about his father’s decision to stay out of Bagdad. And as George said, and Cindy swore before congress, when george aquired his political capitol he would spend it rather than not.
Yes $10 gas and more.
This says it all:
A recent poll released by the Israel Project…
why didn’t they just say 100%?
August 29th, 2008 at 11:10 amLet’s start with Iran’s nuclear fuel refinement facilities.
No one knows if Iran has nuclear weapons facilities and what these folks are asking people to bomb are refinement facilities that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allows, a treaty that both the US & Iran have signed.
Substituting weapons for allowed refinement facilites makes all the difference in the question.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:49 amas Chimpy says: propaganda works. (it takes time for the message to sink in… for the propaganda to work…)
August 29th, 2008 at 11:54 amThis is part of move to manage public opinion to support a strike.
People clearly said diplomacy had to fail for them to support any action, even by Israel.
What’s The Israel Project’s current marketing program? It’s to push people over that line, to say diplomacy is dead. We’re being linguistically led to war.
The British and German citizens did not support military action against Iran, even though their governments would be America’s allies.
This morning’s Jerusalem Post said:
Jerusalem has put preparations for a separate, independent military strike by Israel in high gear.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:56 amTheir website states:
The Israel Project has a team of 22 people on site at the Democratic convention distributing materials about both the threat posed by Iran and the opportunities of alternative energy. It will do the same at the Republican convention.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pmThe Israel Project’s advisory board. It’s made up of:
Sen. Evan Bayh (IN), Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA), Sen. Tom Coburn (OK), Sen. Norm Coleman (MN), Sen. Susan Collins (ME), Sen. Judd Gregg (NH), Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT), Sen. Ben Nelson (NE), Sen. Gordon Smith (OR), Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), Sen. Ron Wyden (OR), Rep. Rob Andrews (NJ), Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV), Rep. Tom Davis (VA), Rep. Eliot Engel (NY), Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ), Rep. Jon Porter (NV), Rep. John Sarbanes (MD), Rep. Jim Saxton (NJ), Rep. Brad Sherman (CA), Rep. Joe Wilson (SC), Actor and Director Ron Silver
August 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pmThe recent Mr. Evil Poll has found that 99% of Americans that actually are in possession of their faculties realize that the Israel Project is a complete sham. Just another neocon lie to justify bombing and invading and killing innocent people of a sovereign nation.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:34 pmVectoring, the message comes from multiple outlets in various ways.
CSPAN-2 is showing a think tank’s program on terrorism at the moment. Yonah Alexander just mentioned Israel’s possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
John McCain’s latest Obama slamming ad is on Iran.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pmSlightly O/T: Dear Senator Obama: you will not restore America’s moral standing in the world by supporting Georgian genocide in South Ossetia.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pmAnd as we speak, the russian bear keeps getting bigger, stronger, pissed off and ready to strike. Succesful ICBM tests and Iran a close ally. And we’re talking Cold War all over again. Will they air “The Day After” on TV just like they did in the early 80’s?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:36 pmLike the Zionists have any credibility left. I sooner believe that 55% of Americans support a strike on Israel.
When will the Zionist controlled press and pollsters learn that Americans don’t trust anything they say anymore?
A complete investigation of 9/11 will reveal the treachery of the Jews.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pmBomb everybody who “scares” us.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pmThat’s the ticket.
Vote McCain and that’s what we’ll get.
The poll was rigged, as the question was push-polled to get a specific response.
The question needs to explain the actual circumstances:
“Would you support an unprovoked attack by the President on a sovereign nation at an unverified site that may be a nuclear laboratory - knowing that attacking a nuclear facility is a war crime according to the US Constitution - just so the President can start a third illegal and immoral war to enrich war profiteers, impoverish US citizens and further damage the US Armed Forces?”
August 29th, 2008 at 10:48 pm