[Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranianpeople

[E.Wayne Johnson]

The pain imposed on the Iranian people by Kirk will be nothing as compared 
to what is imposed on the American people if he is elected.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the 
Iranianpeople


> During the Q&A, Kirk brushed aside concerns that a gasoline embargo
> will hurt innocent Iranians and stated that, in fact, the US should
> punish innocent Iranians as a means to engineer anti-government
> protests in Iran:
>
> "Q: The oil embargo or quarantine sounds like a very plausible
> alternative ... why the opposition from the administration?
>
> Kirk: Um, in a discussion I recently had with administrative
> [Administration?] officials they said we would feel worried that it
> would hurt the Iranian people... (laughs)
>
> But it's that actual pain that I think has to be imposed, in my view,
> a gasoline quarantine would immediately trigger anti-American
> demonstrations in downtown Tehran, organized by the regime."
>
> - Mark Kirk's Fuzzy Iran Logic
> Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council, March 5, 
> 2010
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abdi/mark-kirks-fuzzy-iran-log_b_488028.html
>
> -- 
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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