Interesting that even in light of Iraq's unpopularity, that a slim majority favor hitting Iran.

Zogby: Majority Favor Strikes on Iran
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.

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http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/zogby_iran_nuclear_strike/2007/10/29/44978.html

Interesting that even in light of Iraq's unpopularity, that a slim majority favor hitting Iran.

telephone poles aren't that good

Right, Will the world stand by and do nothing ? but its just one poll, So we wait and see as usual.

it's just like paying taxes. people know it's necessary but don't want to do it themselves.
people around the world are less skeptical about Iran's capabilities and intentions. (some think that since Bush was wrong about WMDs in Iraq he's also likely to be wrong re Iran's WMDs). people just have less faith in their own ability to do anything militarily. but most of them know that sanctions won't stop shit and the only way to do it is through force

Despite tensions between the United States and Iran, most Iranians – nearly two thirds – said they don’t believe that the two countries will go to war in the next decade.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1147

Right, Will the world stand by and do nothing ? but its just one poll, So we wait and see as usual.

I doubt if the world will stand by. Already China and Russia have expressed a firm position against more American aggression. Sane nations won't declare war against the USA (as we did against Nazi Germany) but there is expressed disdain of American militarism.

This isn't a poll of the world but of Americans. Americans are often eager to cheerlead their armies off to battle as in Vietnam and Iraq. If a poll was taken of the world's population, 90% would oppose.

World opinion is irrelevant.

I really don't understand why anything should be done to Iran. We are

getting the same crap we got when the Iraq invasion happened, we were

fooled then, are we going to be fooled again? I hope not. Iran can just buy

nuclear weapons from China or Russia if it wanted to have a nuclear bomb.

It hasn't as yet so what makes everyone so upset at Iran anyway. Could it

be that it is buying all of its weapons and nuclear building materials from

others than the USA? I'll bet that's the problem. If they were to buy nuclear

reactors from the USA as Egypt is doing everything would be allot better I'd

bet. Just a thought.

Nickalooniean,

No it's not irrelevent. Bush isn't that stupid. Even Bush has learned that miltary action can have unforseen cosequences. World opinion isn't the deciding variable in any strike on Iran but far from irrelevent. The Americans are very aware what the Israelis, Arabs, Pakistanis, etc. view of such a strike could be. The Bush regime is fully aware that there is a disdain of the USA by the populations of western democracies and support from allies would be muted or non-existant. Very aware that some Arab nations might reduce oilflow, flow stop from Iran, the Venezuelan people reduce supply in sympathy....Russians and Norwegians not increase supply.

World opinion is very relevant.

I don't trust polls. I don't believe that most Americans are in favor of attacking Iran.

Right, Will the world stand by and do nothing ? but its just one poll, So we wait and see as usual.

Well, in the off chance that the US does attack Iran, the world won't do much. Just look at "the world's" proactive actions in Darfur, Rowanda, and pretty much every other case of somethin disagreeable.

~String