{"id":3020,"date":"2006-09-30T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/cmon-war-party-lets-get-cracking\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T21:41:11","slug":"cmon-war-party-lets-get-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/cmon-war-party-lets-get-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"C&#8217;mon, War Party &#8212; Let&#8217;s Get Cracking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=2501698\">poll numbers<\/a> are in, and it looks like the War Party has its work cut out:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran, according to a Reuters\/Zogby poll released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asked the best course of action for the United States in dealing with Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions, 45 percent said Washington should join with allies to increase diplomatic efforts and another 17 percent said the United States should step up diplomacy on its own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One in four respondents, 26 percent, said they supported the use of U.S. ground troops in Iran, while 70 percent opposed it. Nine percent favored air strikes on selected military targets in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/lind1.html\">you guys<\/a>, let&#8217;s get that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j101003.html\">propaganda machine<\/a> churning! I can hear\u00c2\u00a0its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/print\/V13\/8\/tomasky-m.html\">gears<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/11_17_03\/article1.html\">whirring<\/a> now: already we have talk that, contrary to our own\u00c2\u00a0CIA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/01\/AR2005080101453_pf.html\">assessment<\/a>, the Iranians will have nukes in a matter of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2006-09\/18\/content_5102623.htm\">months<\/a> &#8212; and that Iranian agents are ready to strike at the U.S. at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2089-2147683,00.html\">a moment&#8217;s notice<\/a>. Now all we need\u00c2\u00a0is a few <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1153AP_FBI_Anthrax.html\">anthrax-laden letters<\/a>, and\u00c2\u00a0lots more &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/02\/19\/wirq19.xml\">intelligence<\/a>&#8221; from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/org\/news\/2004\/041203-iran.htm\">certain<\/a> Middle Eastern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/13\/magazine\/13MUJAHADEEN.html?ei=5007&#038;en=6b6a11b0fdb450b1&#038;ex=1373428800&#038;partner=USERLAND&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">exile group<\/a> &#8212; helpfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/news\/wall-street-journal\/judith-miller-finally-finds-forum-appropriate-to-her-talents-174166.php\">channeled<\/a> to the American public via the front page of\u00c2\u00a0America&#8217;s most venerable news source &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0and we&#8217;ll likely see those poll numbers reversed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poll numbers are in, and it looks like the War Party has its work cut out: &#8220;A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of U.S. troops to thwart Iran, according to a Reuters\/Zogby poll released on Thursday. &#8220;Asked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}