Poll: Americans Support Force Against North Korea

April 5th, 2009 (15) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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Politico:

American voters across lines of age, party and gender support a military approach to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Sunday morning — and conducted in the two days prior to North Korea’s test missile launch on Saturday.

The poll shows that 57 percent of all voters support such a response, while just 15 percent oppose it. A military response is favored by a majority in both parties — 66 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats — and by 57 percent of both men and women.

A majority of respondents, 51 percent, also oppose the U.S. offering economic aid to North Korea in exchange for it agreeing to dismantle its nuclear program.

On Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox News Sunday” that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea was able to launch it.

In what seemed to be a swipe at the Obama administration’s response, he warned, “One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster,” adding, “I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.”

The telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters has a three-percentage-point margin of error.

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  • Andy

    Bullshit. The majority of Americans supported invading Iraq until it took more than a week to complete the operations. Then they (the majority of Americans) whined and snivelled and bitched that it was a “Quagmire” because the lying MSM told them so. The majority of Americans didn’t have to sacrifice so much as a single f***ing tin of bacon grease, but you wouldn’t have known it by the way they cried like little babies and voted for a communist government take-over of the former United States of America. These are the very people that sold our nation out over Iraq and now they think they want to strike at North Korea??? Get the hell out of here.

    The majority of Americans couldn’t find the Korean Peninsula on a map if it was circled with a fat f***ing sharpie and crammed up their @ss.

  • ROB (FLINT89)

    They also couldn’t locate Iraq. In fact I’m sure there are still a ton of people who still don’t even know where Iraq is. I saw something where someone said Iraq was on Australia. :shock:

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=89280654 DEVILDOG81MM

    you got to be fucking kidding me

    America will vote for anything it thinks is easy

    it seems America has truly “forgotten” the wars

  • Sixchuter

    Let South Korea handle it. South Korea has an economy that can support a modern military, and they have one. They could mop the floor with the N.Korean army.

  • Ty

    I agree with all those who posted before me.

  • John H

    LOL…..funniest damn thing I have read all day. Americans no longer have the intestinal fortitude to fuck with 3rd world middle eastern countries but they want to tangle with the most god awful hornets nest in the world.

    The public has no FUCKING clue what the hell they are talking about. I’m ALL for taking careof North Korea if we have to…but I have no illusions what the casualties would be like. it would belike NOTHING Americans have faced for some time.

    That county is like a tin foil survivalists wet dream, it is has taken bunkers to an entirely new level with roads that tank columns can use under ground, they have one of the thorniest missle defense systems against any sort of air attack, and unliek the middle east they have a shit ton of well tuned firearms and very hardened well trained men using them.

    Sure we could and would ultimately win out, but that would be one hell of a high body county, and Given Seoul’s proximity it likely would mean a civilian death count un heard of since world war II.

    What they should have asked was do you have the back bone to face down a country that may be willing to cause a nuclear attack on American citizens or her allies, even if it means losing 100′s of thosands of our armed forces, and maybe millions of civilians lives?

    Yeah I’m for taking North Korea out if we have no other choice, but that is not a tango the spineless wussies that have taken over this country are ready for.

  • John H

    Just like to add to that, Unless both China and Japan are willing to work with us on that…FUCK that.

  • Ivan the Kafir

    Agreed.

  • TerryTate

    Not with Obama in charge.

    Hell no.

    Give me a real commander in chief and then I might consider it.

    Until then, fuck no.

    I don’t want to see our guys being left high and dry, just so the lefties can say war is bad.

    Fuck that shit.

  • billy_bonney

    Horseshit, the people in this country are bigger pussies than that turd who calls himself a President. Besdies the scumbags in the Un wouldn’t allow it and Erkle would kowtow to them just like he did a Saudi Sheik.

    We spent billions over the years supporting, training, equipping the S. Korean Army.
    If anybody should be blasting the NORKS then the S. Koreans, who are more threatened than anyone, should be the ones to do it.

    They have enough elite commando units, undercover moles and agents infiltrated in N. Korea to sabotage any missle launch or planned attack before the rest of the world would even know what the hell is going down.

    Billy

  • AFITgrad86

    Having “Been there, done that, still have the T-shirt” let’s start by acknowledging that the North Koreans have amassed a huge army that outnumbers that of the South Koreans 950,000 to 560,000 active duty troops.

    Although the South Koreans have made significant upgrades to their arsenal, a potential conflict lines up like the old NATO-USSR with the North having a huge numerical advantage in armor and troops. Both sides have had decades to prepare elaborate tank traps, tunnels and other engineering projects on and under the DMZ.

    The in-country US Forces have been reduced by about a third (28K down from 38K) with only about 100 aircraft remaining. By international agreement the US has denuclearized the Korean peninsula eliminating a major numerical equalizer.

    Although the US has the ability to quickly reinforce the South (and practices that capability annually as is ongoing now) such reinforcement might come too late. The North is quite public about it’s intent to drive the 35 miles south to take Seoul and has much of the defenses (including the major headquarters in suburban Seoul and Osan) within missile range. They have a demonstrated special ops capability which they are expected to use to capture key facilities in a blitzkrieg strategy to gain as much as possible before the US can react.

    I agree this would be a high casualty conflict fought on a scale unimagined by those who have no military background. The civilian casualties would be horrendous.

    Bottom line … if you start something over there be prepared to follow through in a huge way. The North has nothing to loose and thinks it has a lot to gain. Who would ultimately prevail is a geo-political issue as it would come down to what China and Russia are likely to do.

    Our position has always been that of a defender against an invasion from the north. If we become seen as the aggressor we loose our credibility in that regard and invite Chinese intervention.

  • http://earthlink nomee1

    I dissagree only because we never finished the job 50 years ago due to the united nations, and weak leadershhip of this country, may be time to finish the job now, with help of others

  • John H

    A lot of if’s and but’s like candy and nuts would make a merry merry Christmas. If MacArthur hadn’t been such a pompous dick and followed orders and intel at the yalu river there’d be no North Korea to worry about.

    Reality is now. And the Reality is if we get in a war with North Korea our guys on the parallel and their will be mostly dead in the first few hours, and Seoul will make Dresden look like a small case of collateral Damage. Not to mentioned losing allot of our best allies in the world. I’d take ROK Marines over just about any other allie we have on any battlefield on any continent.

    I’m not saying under no circumstance, but I think people need to acknowledge what the costs of that war would be, and really ask if at any point and time if it’s worth it. Just remember the moment it starts 100,000′s to a million and more will likely be dead in the first day alone. This is not some fucking camel jockey sand pit. This is hardcore cold war fortress, with a shit ton of ordinance waiting to go off.

    The only way it would work really is if China was on our side….and that WILL NOT EVER HAPPEN. China pretends to promote peace, but they still back North Korea, and likely always will.

    This is a time bomb that will go off sooner or later, but I still pray and hope for a coup within….the best thing that could happen to North Korea is an internal struggle and coup.

  • John H

    ROK forces are some of the best in the world, and have been some of the best troops to travel with US forces in every major war since. I’d prefer ROK forces to just about any other at our side as far as allies go. However I think you vastly over estimate what they can do, and vastly under estimate what North Korea is like. You can’t even pass wind with a scent of McDonalds and not get halled off jailed, and probably executed. I know in the movies spies can just wiz around these sort of places. However reality is intelligence in a place like North Korea is VERY hard, and the best solution for taking ANYTHING out would be a missle strike. But again that would likely set the place off.

  • John H

    international agreement the US has denuclearized the Korean peninsula eliminating a major numerical equalizer.

    Well in fairness there’s always a few subs in range.