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Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:58 pm    Post subject: Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely Reply with quote

Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Americans are far more likely than the Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime, according to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II ended. Most people in both countries believe the first use of a nuclear weapon is never justified.

Those findings come six decades after the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war claimed about 400,000 U.S. troops around the world, more than three times that many Japanese troops and at least 300,000 Japanese civilians.

Out of the ashes, Japan and the United States forged a close political alliance. Americans and Japanese now generally have good feelings about each other Very Happy

But people in the two countries have very different views on everything from the U.S. use of the atomic bomb in 1945, fears of North Korea and the American military presence in Japan.

Some of the widest differences came on expectations of a new world war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/world_war_ii_poll;_ylt=AkXSqs2auXabm4DGnUP5RKUDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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World War 3 *cough* " ... likely" ??? Shocked

This is evidently one journalist who has not entirely been following the news. Most of the world knew the "enterprise" was definitely off to a thunderous start as we watched events unfold in NYC on our TV screens Sep. 11th, 2001.

Banking now on WW4 would be more like it Twisted Evil
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rapier



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say its a certainty. But between whom exactly?
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Derrek



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It'll be between the US and Canada.

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Wrench



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it will happen in my life time.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the same article:

[/quote]Six in 10 Americans said they think such a war is likely, while only one-third of the Japanese said so, according to polling done in both countries for The Associated Press and Kyodo, the Japanese news service.

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I'm with the 4 in 10 who say it is not likely. I think the 6 in 10 are responding to the unwarranted fear-mongering the present administration espouses. (It's not surprising rapier agrees with them.)

Terrorist attacks, as bad as they are, do not measure up to the meaning of war in the sense of the two world wars. Those were total wars. I think it demeans the sacrifices of the people who were in those wars to put current terrorist activity in the same category. Hyping terrorism into that category distorts the meaning of the word war.

Between who indeed? At present, no conceivable group of countries can match US military might. It will be several more decades before the Chinese are in a position to challenge, if they want to do it. I don't see that they necessarily would want to.

I saw a reference the other day to some right-wingers calling the present situation World War IV. It made me wonder what happened in WW III. It must have happened during my time in Korea before English TV arrived in my city.
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thebum



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have no idea if it will happen in my lifetime because I don't know when I will die.
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Bulsajo



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if they polled the same Americans who thought that Iraq was behind 9/11...
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inkoreaforgood



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thebum wrote:
I have no idea if it will happen in my lifetime because I don't know when I will die.


I give you a month and three days. Just off the top of my head.
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Butterfly



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thebum wrote:
I have no idea if it will happen in my lifetime because I don't know when I will die.


You got a point there.

I find it best not to pay heed to what the American, or any nation's public have to say. Most of them are idiots.
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joe_doufu



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think people tend to respond positively to surveys. Some good looking reporter comes to you and says "Do you think World War III will happen soon?" ... well obviously the nice lady wants to put together an article about World War III ... you don't want to ruin her day ... so you say "Sure, dearie"
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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Butterfly wrote:
I find it best not to pay heed to what the American, or any nation's public have to say. Most of them are idiots.


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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange, it's already started and nobody noticed? Casualties in Bali, UK, US, Iraq, Afghanistan... ...and how many countries in the Coalition of the Wicked? Granted, it's not exactly Shock and Awe 24/7, but there's no doubt it's a world war. (No caps on purpose.)
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EFLtrainer wrote:
Strange, it's already started and nobody noticed? Casualties in Bali, UK, US, Iraq, Afghanistan... ...and how many countries in the Coalition of the Wicked? Granted, it's not exactly Shock and Awe 24/7, but there's no doubt it's a world war. (No caps on purpose.)



Well the security services of mideast regimes can put an end to Al Qaida within there own countries if they want to.

Pakistan is a different case and it isn't in the mideast anyway. At any rate Musharif doesn't have anywhere near the control of his nation that mideast dictators do.


Getting back to it most mideast rulers are all powerful in their states. They control the media and they pay the clerics and they know what the elites do. They know where the money goes and when the demonstrations happen- heh most of the time the demonstrations are organized by the governments.
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

EFLtrainer wrote:
Strange, it's already started and nobody noticed? Casualties in Bali, UK, US, Iraq, Afghanistan... ...and how many countries in the Coalition of the Wicked? Granted, it's not exactly Shock and Awe 24/7, but there's no doubt it's a world war. (No caps on purpose.)

Exactly. That was kinda my point. These so-called "journalists" are overlooking the obvious, supressing evidence, begging the question.

AmeriKa's New Pearl Harbour
Sept 11th, 2001 ... duh ...
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:
EFLtrainer wrote:
Strange, it's already started and nobody noticed? Casualties in Bali, UK, US, Iraq, Afghanistan... ...and how many countries in the Coalition of the Wicked? Granted, it's not exactly Shock and Awe 24/7, but there's no doubt it's a world war. (No caps on purpose.)

Exactly. That was kinda my point. These so-called "journalists" are overlooking the obvious, supressing evidence, begging the question.

AmeriKa's New Pearl Harbour
Sept 11th, 2001 ... duh ...



A guy who supports a holocaust denier like Jeff Rense compares the US to the Klan.

Jeff Rense = real life fascist like his supporters.
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