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

[C. G. Estabrook]

  But it's not clear that voting Democratic is any better.

It's the Democrats who'll bring us war with Iran, if it happens.

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On 8/17/10 5:29 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:03 AM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranianpeople
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>
>> 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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