Re: *** Most Americans favor bombing Iraq - poll

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:07:55 -0800

Damn! I am already happily clicking away in another discussion
about this very subject and here you go trying to start something
on fork. Okay, I have a 5 pound bag of starbucks coffee riding
on my particular apocalypse theory. Iraq (currently developing
weapons of mass destructions) engages in an armed conflict
with the US, North Korea (currently developing weapons
of mass destructions) invades South, the US military currently unable
to support two theaters of full scale conflict spend all their time
ramping up, meanwhile the US military bureacracy in it's weakened,
pre-occupied superpower state gets take advantage of by several
rogue states around the world, possibly by other memebers of the
'Atoms Family' or maybe even a slow boat to Taiwan. Any side bets?

Greg

>
> Most Americans say the U.S. should bomb Iraq if it continues to block
> U.S. citizens from taking part in U.N. arms inspections, and 8 in 10
> or 84% favor retaliation if Baghdad tries to shoot down U.S. spy
> planes, an ABC poll said Wednesday. The poll, released on
> "Nightline," said 54% believed the U.S. was headed for another
> confrontation with Iraq. 44% said they did not believe the
> confrontation would end in war. 54% of the 751 adults polled said
> Washington should bomb Iraq if it continues to ban U.S. weapons
> inspectors from searching for arms of mass destruction under terms of
> a Gulf War cease-fire resolution. For story
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5924536-94f
> U.S. says U.N. vote could push Iraq to back down, For story
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5920650-6ae
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