<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Amy Goodman quoted JFP yesterday (Tuesday, Aug 17th) duriing headlines. Didja all catch that??<div> --Jenifer <br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 8/17/10, Robert Naiman <i><naiman.uiuc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranian people<br>To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:03 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">During the Q&A, Kirk brushed aside concerns that a gasoline embargo<br>will hurt innocent Iranians and stated that, in fact, the US should<br>punish innocent Iranians as a means to engineer anti-government<br>protests in Iran:<br><br>"Q: The oil embargo or quarantine sounds
like a very plausible<br>alternative ... why the opposition from the administration?<br><br>Kirk: Um, in a discussion I recently had with administrative<br>[Administration?] officials they said we would feel worried that it<br>would hurt the Iranian people... (laughs)<br><br>But it's that actual pain that I think has to be imposed, in my view,<br>a gasoline quarantine would immediately trigger anti-American<br>demonstrations in downtown Tehran, organized by the regime."<br><br>- Mark Kirk's Fuzzy Iran Logic<br>Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council, March 5, 2010<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/mark-kirks-fuzzy-iran-log_b_488028.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/mark-kirks-fuzzy-iran-log_b_488028.html</a><br><br>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br>www.justforeignpolicy.org<br><a ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org"
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