Poll: 55 percent of Americans think Trump killing Soleimani made the U.S. less safe
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Poll: 55 percent of Americans think Trump killing Soleimani made the U.S. less safe
A majority of Americans don't seem to be buying the Trump administration's rationale for killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleiman, according to a new poll.
In a USA TODAY /Ipsos poll released Thursday, 55 percent of U.S. adults said the United States' recent drone strike that killed Soleimani and its immediate aftermath made the country less safe.
The administration has contended the opposite in the days since the strike. Vice President Mike Pence, for example, told Today in an interview Thursday that "America is safer" as a result of Trump's decision.
But only 24 percent of Americans in this poll said the strike made the country safer, and almost a third of Republicans said the strike made the U.S. less safe. Even so, 42 percent of Americans still supported the Soleimani strike, while 33 percent opposed it and 25 percent didn't know what to think about it.
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed also described Trump's behavior with Iran as "reckless," while 62 percent said the strike that killed Soleimani made it more likely that the United States and Iran will go to war. Forty-seven percent said they believe Trump authorized the bombing to distract from impeachment.
USA Today 's poll was taken by surveying 1,005 adults online on Jan. 7 and Jan. 8, and it was completed prior to Trump's recent address. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points. Read the full results at USA Today .
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To be fair Clinton, Bush, and Obama made all 3rd world regimes very nervous.
Of they were all Establishment candidates, so that makes what they did OK./S
There is a lot of danger in the world. Doing the right thing takes courage.
To the title, I'll refer to FDR at the dawn of the Second World War - "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Can you post the methodology of this poll?
I would be very, very surprised to not find democrats over sampled, or that the majority of those polled were in the northeast or west coast.
Do you feel less safe? I certainly do...
Democrat talking point.
They know the answer is yes to both, but they have to defend their messiah at all costs.
We should have just sent them the antiquated, at least by that time, equipment that they supposedly paid for in advance. Isn't that what the money was purported to have been for? NO interest accrual included.
No.
U.S. Treasury Department estimates put the number at about $50 billion in Iran's own “usable liquid assets,” that had been frozen, according to 2015 testimony from Adam Szubin, acting under secretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. The deal with Iran was for them to give up all their nuclear ambitions and ability and agree to be heavily monitored for the next 15 years in exchange for access to their own money/assets and a lifting of some financial sanctions. By all accounts, they had been abiding by their end of the bargain until dishonest Donald abruptly pulled the plug on the US participation in a global deal made by the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China—plus Germany) and the European Union, not "Obama".
So please stop repeating all the bullshit lies coming out of this dishonest Presidents mouth. He gets his news from Breitbart and Fox, so of course he can't be trusted. Stop letting the right wing "alternative fact" machine delude you, you're all smarter than that, you don't have to let yourselves be deceived unless you wanted to be deceived and the insertion of the head into Trumps voluminous backside was intentional. If that's the case, then I supposed there really isn't anything anyone can do to change your mind until someone changes dirty Donald's diaper.
That would have been a possibility if they still existed. What were they buying, F4s? They only exist in museums now I believe.
The only US aircraft Iran ever had were F4, F5 and they are still flying F-14s
And I understand that giving them back their own money with interest meant that it would be to some percentage
be used against us and our allies by funding terrorists. Obama and our allies knew that they could not control that.
Nor could they keep the money frozen for 40 more years.
But the alternative to the negotiated $1.7 billion was to let the
World Court pass a judgement of $8 to 10 billion against the USA which would have financed far more more attacks against us & Israel.
which we would not have honored and would have caused political damage to the UN, NATO and our own
legal reputation/standing in the world.
Keep in mind that Treasury had discovered a secret Iranian account of $2 Billion in NYC in 2012 which Obama promptly froze
and declared it would be divided among any claimant against Iran, including military.
Iran sued and the case went to the Supreme Court which decided for Obama.
Iran sued in the World Court which last year agreed to make a judgement but warned Iran that it's "dirty hands"
would be factored in to whatever judgement would be rendered.
So we have come back to the same dilemma ( for some people); if the WC finds for the USA all is well.
If the WC finds partially or all for Iran ( unlikely ) the it will be up to President Trump to concur or tell the WC
to go to hell.
hence, the human game continues...
So, No. Neither Obama, the US or the other signatories gave Iran $150 Billion dollars as President Trump has repeated.
they did unfreeze something less than $60 billion.
Jesus Christ, don't you ever read any accurate news?
Of course not, they're being indoctrinated inside the right wing "alternative fact" machine to believe anything outside of their propaganda is "fake news" and an "enemy of the people". It's how populists, despots and dictators have always built a barrier against any logic, reason and intelligence that doesn't align with their personal political objectives.
And Trump is laughing his ass off at their gullibility, as are the alt-right assholes who are manipulating Trump.
Why is that important? We confiscate money and private property from drug dealers and other criminals all the time. We don't give it back to them when we let them out of jail. Why should we return money we confiscated from people who kidnap our citizens and are the biggest exporters of terrorism on the planet?
So you are saying that 120 now equals 150 ??
Interesting.
So I take it you're not familiar with the definitions of "limited ability" and "utilize"?
Above, we have a Trump loyalist repeating the lie about "Obama" giving Iran $150 billion. This is an obvious, easily disproved lie.
You then link the actual PDF of the updated Iran sanctions that disproves your own lie. Besides the number being $30 billion lower than your repeated lie, it directly states that only a part of that total was completely frozen. How does it feel to hoist yourself on your own petard?
"The phrase's meaning is literally that the bomb-maker (a "petard" is a small explosive device) is blown up ("hoisted" off the ground) by his own bomb, and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice."
International laws?
What we do to our own citizens is of no matter in this conversation.
I'm thinking that when they engage in kidnapping, rape, and murder, they forfeit their right to protect their assets under "international law." For me, kidnapping, rape, and murder are violations of more serious international laws than confiscating the funds of people who engage in that kind of thing.
Unfortunately, it is the human game. The old Testament endorsed the same behavior at God's direction as does the Koran.
but we may be wandering off topic here.
Well at the risk of repeating your own words to you, you implied that "we" sent to Iran $150 billion.
You know you misspoke and you are just spinning wheels.
Per my other comments, "we" as in in the Obama Admin negotiated to send 400 mill in cash to Iran and 1.3 billion in interest.
That is uncontested.
When the USA Germany France UK EU Russia and China crafted the Iran Nuke Deal
they unfroze Iranian assets around the globe the amount of which is
still contested by a lot of links to be between 25 billion and 120 billion
which has been exaggerated by certain media and the current President to $150 billion
So I can only assume ( I know, I know) that we are in 100% agreement
and that you are in total denial that that was ever possible.
Cheers
and the French, British, Europeans, Russians and Chinese.
You really need to do something about that ODS.
People believe what the news media tells them to believe. Considering the way they freak out over everything Trump does - from foreign policy to the way he eats pizza - it's not surprising that a nation that can't even find Iran on a map thinks we are in more danger from them than before.
Where are you obtaining your information? Trump and his pallies personally keeping you in the loop, are they?
From the seat of my pants. Wanna feel?
that was funny but you shouldn't tease Sister like that
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