Addicted to terror: Support for war on Iran has slipped significantly from the February 2006 CNN/Gallup poll cited here that said 80 percent of Americans favored bombing the Persian country if it developed nuclear weapons. Acccording to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll:

Asked whether they would support military action if Iran continued to produce material that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, 48 percent of the poll’s respondents, or almost half, said yes; 40 percent said no…

In a telling reflection of Bush’s erosion in public support, 54 percent said they did not trust him to “make the right decision about whether we should go to war with Iran,” while 42 percent of respondents said they trusted him to do so.

That was a reversal of public sentiment since 2003, on the eve of Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, when 55 percent of respondents said they trusted him to make the right decision over whether to go to war.