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megaman79 on 20 February 2010
CNN Poll: American believe Iran has nuclear weapons
Posted: February 19th, 2010 12:00 PM ET

Washington (CNN) – Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll.

Friday's release of the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey comes just hours after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the Islamic republic isn't seeking and doesn't believe in pursuing nuclear weapons. Khamenei was responding to a draft United Nations report that said that Iran may be working to develop a nuclear weapon.

The poll indicates that 71 percent of the public says Iran has nuclear weapons, with just over one in four disagreeing. More than six in ten think the U.S. should take economic and diplomatic efforts to get Iran to shut down their nuclear program, with only a quarter calling for immediate military action.

---- Ok, but they don't have Nuclear Weapons. How can people be so unaware, and this is after Iraq, that a middle eastern country does not actually pose an immediate threat?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/19/cnn-poll-american-believe-iran-has-nuclear-weapons/?fbid=Sr3kk3Dlul3



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Slimebeast on 20 February 2010

That's a bit awkward, but I wonder exactly how the question was formulated in the survey.



amp316 on 20 February 2010

I'm one of the three in ten that doesn't.

We're not all stupid.

Oh... it's a CNN poll.

Nevermind...



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pastro243 on 20 February 2010

Noooo! the nuclear weapons again!!!!



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MANUELF on 20 February 2010

They should shut up, United States has the most nuclear weapons in the world and no one cares



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Mr Khan on 20 February 2010

Like Iran with one or two nukes would be dangerous. I mean, certainly a bad situation, but Iran i think is cognizant enough to realize that *using* a nuke would be ruinous.

 

Israel with nukes is at least as dangerous as Iran with them, yet no-one seems to complain.



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MontanaHatchet on 20 February 2010
MANUELF said:
They should shut up, United States has the most nuclear weapons in the world and no one cares

Because we're not unstable and likely to launch it out of petty anger and jealousy.



 

 

MontanaHatchet on 20 February 2010
Mr Khan said:

Like Iran with one or two nukes would be dangerous. I mean, certainly a bad situation, but Iran i think is cognizant enough to realize that *using* a nuke would be ruinous.

 

Israel with nukes is at least as dangerous as Iran with them, yet no-one seems to complain.

This is not true and you know it.



 

 

Mr Khan on 20 February 2010
MontanaHatchet said:
Mr Khan said:

Like Iran with one or two nukes would be dangerous. I mean, certainly a bad situation, but Iran i think is cognizant enough to realize that *using* a nuke would be ruinous.

 

Israel with nukes is at least as dangerous as Iran with them, yet no-one seems to complain.

This is not true and you know it.

Why, exactly? What makes Israeli conduct in foreign affairs better than Iran? What has one done that the other has restrained itself from? Both have made threats against the other to take disturbingly drastic action, just that Ahmadinejad's language is somewhat more apocalyptic.

 

The only difference is the chance that Iran's regime could destabilize, and then do something stupid, but as long as they're thinking clearly, they're not going to use nukes.



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megaman79 on 20 February 2010

The thing that disturbs me the most is that, despite Americas press freedom ranking, the majority of citizens clearly are no wiser to the propaganda being pumped to them from particular sources.

You could argue that Iran, or China's, falibility exists because of a lack of media diversity but you can't say that about America.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.