A Rasmussen poll from last week found that only 18% of American voters believe that Iran has stopped its nuclear weapons program.
Just 18% of American voters believe that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 66% disagree and say Iran has not stopped its nuclear weapons program.
News comes today that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has joined the list of unbelievers, adding his voice to the growing skepticism.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Wednesday that there is a danger of war erupting over Iran's nuclear program if "the Israelis consider their security is truly threatened."
In the interview with Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, Sarkozy said France was more worried about tensions between Iran and Israel than between Iran and the United States...
...In the interview, Sarkozy said, "Everyone agrees that what the Iranians are doing has no civilian explanation. The only debate is whether they will have military capability in one year or in five years."
Meanwhile, the number of US journalists who believe it is apparently closer to 100% than to 18%. A Morton Kondracke column from a couple of days ago rejoiced at the news.
THE new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran ought to be greeted with cheers and bipartisan agreement on vigorous carrot-and-stick diplomacy to get Iran to open its nuclear program to international inspections.
Instead, Democrats tried to use it to accuse President Bush of lying about and hyping the Iran threat - and Bush claimed that it changed nothing about U.S. policy.
Of course, it changed everything, both politically and geopolitically.
The finding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 - reversing a 2005 declaration that Iran had such a program - ended any possibility that Bush could win support for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
But it has never been very likely that the US would attack Iran. As President Sarkozy observes, a US attack is much less likely than an Israeli strike. Israel has already demonstrated its willingness to go on the attack as it did when nuclear threats from Iraq and Syria arose.
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