RASMUSSEN SILLINESS: 57% Want Military Response to North Korea Missile Launch

[jefferson_dem]

Thank God "Joe Lunchpail" is not POTUS. I wonder what percentage of those 57% can't even spell North Korea correctly, much less find it on a world map. I also wonder if Scotty Rasmussen polled this question after North Korea's 2006 missle test.

57% Want Military Response to North Korea Missile Launch
Sunday, April 05, 2009

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters nationwide favor a military response to eliminate North Korea’s missile launching capability. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 15% of voters oppose a military response while 28% are not sure.

North Korea defied international pressure and launched a missile last night. Officials from that country claim a satellite was placed in orbit. U.S. defense officials confirm that a missile was launched but that no object was placed in orbit.

"With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations,” President Obama said.

The telephone survey was conducted Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, the two days immediately prior to North Korea’s launch. The question asked about a military response if North Korea actually did launch a long-range missile.

Support for a military response comes from 66% of Republicans, 52% of Democrats and 54% of those not affiliated with either major political party. There is no gender gap on the issue as a military response is favored by 57% of men and 57% of women.

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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/general_current_events/57_want_military_response_to_north_korea_missile_launch

[Dennis Donovan]

1. What a SPLENDID idea!

The FIRST Korean war went SOOOO well for us...:crazy:

[Goony 2009]

23. Hahaha! Love those guys!

[Peacetrain]

2. Well all those wastes of skin seem to forget.. it is a UN sanction

They want us to be the strong arm of the UN? These are the same characters that HATE the UN. To be that delusional on a daily basis has got to take its toll on the sanity I guess.

[Thrill]

3. Too Bad. We aren't going to overrreacting

If Japan hasn't offered a military response, nor should we.

[Kdillard]

4. Unbelievable. Yep just what we need. Thank god we don't have

an idiot in charge. Do they not understand that the launch was only a minor success and that it broke off harmlessly into the ocean?

[geek tragedy]

5. Yeah, what's 500,000 dead in Seoul anyways. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

21. I mean, it's not like they can fire half a million shells per minute at Seoul or anything.

And I bet we'd get a proportional response from Kim. He seems the type to let bygones be bygones when it comes to military action against North Korea.

[davidpdx]

24. At least, then you have the wounded and all the medical facilities taken out

The entire capital of the country at a stand still and the 11th biggest economy in world in a financial mess.

How can anyone NOT see how bad of an idea this is?

[OHdem10]

6. Ask these warmongers, will they pay some war tax to pay for it??

[BlueJazz]

7. Good..57% Put on your Fucking Uniform, grab your rifle and get your Ass over there.

These are the same idiots that think it's OK if we attack another Country but
get their loins in an uproar if any other country even tests a Firecracker.

[irislake]

8. Don't 57% of Americans ever get sick of war?

Well I don't believe the poll. 27% maybe.

Good thing Newt Gingrich isn't president. He'd show 'em! Or so he sez.

Hmmmmmm. Newt is so yesterday, thank God.

[amampur]

9. Rasmussen provides comfort food to right wingers

That's all he does. That is his mission statement.

[DJ13]

10. "missiles" dont launch satellites

Just calling it a missile is the MSM framing the debate to stir up the masses.

[Occam Bandage]

20. Satellite launches aren't horizontal. nt

[Arkana]

11. They're not going to get it, so too fucking bad.

We're not the Bush administration.

[alsame]

12. By all means, we should

start a third war. The first 2 are just going so well.

[ShadowLiberal]

13. The time to invade a country with nuclear weapons is... well you know... BEFORE they get them

Only a complete moron would attack someone like North Korea now, because what do you think they'll do if they're invaded. You think they'll just leave half a dozen nukes unused? Of course not, they'll sure try their hardest to hit whoever invades them, and if their nukes can't reach that far then they'll do it to their allies.

The time for an invasion into north korea was when Bush was invading Iraq, and North Korea was still working on building nuclear weapons and didn't have any.

[LittleBlue]

14. American stupidity never ceases to amaze me

I say we take a vote, and then conscript everyone who voted "yes" into service. Send them to N. Korea, wish them good luck, and thank God we've rid ourselves of a societal plague.

The gene pool would be greatly improved.

[firedupdem]

15. You know who they must have questioned. They need to go and

fight themselves then.

[Jennicut]

16. LMAO. Its Rasmussen, why expect anything less?

[polichick]

17. Good God, America must be the most frightened nation on earth!

[zulchzulu]

18. Do these people understand that the missile test FAILED?

It was amazing to watch John King today start off the story generating an impression that the missile test could endanger the US but was then talked down to how the test was actually a failure.

Do these people remember how well it went when we fought with Korea in the 1950's? Do they even know where North Korea is on a map?

[butterfly77]

22. And they all put the question as if they are asking.

the President "what are you going to do about it?" they never get enough of trying to prove to the world that they are the baddest nation on earth..

[Occam Bandage]

19. 57% of Americans are tired of Seoul being around. nt

[davidpdx]

25. Dumb fucking people probably can't even find Korea on the map

let alone know that Seoul, the capital would be hit hard damaging the 11th largest economy in the world.

[tsuki]

26. Is this the 57% that are going to volunteer? nt