[Peace-discuss] JFP quoted on DN!

[Robert Naiman]

Also picked up in the Daily Mail:

Now it's 'Obama's War': President sees same number of U.S. troops -
575 - die in Afghanistan as during Bush years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1303963/Obamas-War-Same-number-US-troops-die-Afghanistan-Bush-years.html


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Specifically, Amy Goodman quoted JFP's stats that Afghan War deaths under Obama now = ditto under Bush.
>  --Jenifer
>
> --- On Wed, 8/18/10, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranian people
> To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 9:01 AM
>
> Amy Goodman quoted JFP yesterday (Tuesday, Aug 17th) duriing headlines. Didja all catch that??
>  --Jenifer
>
> --- On Tue, 8/17/10, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Mark Kirk: pain must be imposed on the Iranian people
> To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:03 PM
>
> 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
>
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