Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) proposed additional economic sanctions on Iran on Thursday aimed at crippling the country’s central bank and stifling the Iranian economy.
One of the bill’s top supporters, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), said, “Critics [of the sanctions] argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.”
The renewed push for additional sanctions against Iran comes after excessive government and media hype over the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report inflating concerns about a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program, although little evidence was put forth.
Senator Kirk’s plan was first advocated in August when a bipartisan group of 92 U.S. Senators signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to impose additional sanctions. In May, the U.S. imposed sanctions on foreign companies doing business with Iran’s energy industry and restricted the flood of money in and out of the country.
Rhetoric about the purposes of the sanctions are cold and homicidal. Many of the proponents proudly reference the sanctions imposed against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1990s. Not only did those sanctions have no favorable effect in Iraq’s policies, but they are also known to have directly contributed to the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children and up to one million Iraqis total.
Yea 'cause it worked so wel in getting rid of Castro.
The world would be better off applying sanctions against Israel rather than Iran. Israel is the country avocating another war, not iran. A war that it is trying to drag the rest of us into.
This is the real target of our scapegoating of Iran – to hurt and damage the population. This whole nuclear bullshit is based on hatred not security. This is the new racism in America, a nation that has always adored its racism and scapegoating its victims to death.
The real target is the oil of Iran and the remove of the check on Israel that Iran happens to be. Iran is the source of arms for Herzobella. You cannot defend yourself without military equipment and re supply network. Israel is our of water and they need to steal the land of Lebanon up to the Latavi river. Israel attempted in 2006 in a major invasion to get the bottom half of Lebanon but they were very badly beaten by the irregular groups in the South of Lebanon.
This is just the same lies as we did to Iraq and so many suffered for the profits of so few. We lost 4400 dead and some 40,000 crippled while Israel lost none. Give peace and chance and let Israel do what it feels is important so we can stop killing our kids for a very few.
The US Congress is no longer a place for civilised men and women, but rather, a holding pen of frothing at the mouth blood thirsty animals. Who came down from Mount Sinai with tablets from God giving permission for those obscene yahoos to be able to do this to fellow human beings whose only crime is that they refuse to knuckle under and tow the American line like good little neutered puppies? This inability to bring Iran to heel and become a US puppet is, to a large extent, the reason behind this ever increasing and obscene "attacks" on Iran, not to mention their inability to steal their oil and gas wealth.
I would love to see how much AIPAC gave Senator Kirk to be their representative. I wonder if it was 30 pieces of Silver which I understand is the traditional payment for people like Senator Kirk.
Our US Congress is filled with such Zionist TRAITORS to America.
That's an insult to animals. The soulless monsters in question make a rabid dog look like a paragon of civility and reason.
This is the greatest piece that I have ever had the pleasure to read . Thank you for articulating such significant situation in america rushing headlong into third world status.
Wonder if this clown knows that there are thousands of Iranian Jewish men, women and children in Iran
Hello can anyone help me to contact the person who actually represents the people of the state that elected Senator Mark Kirk? Senator Kirk is playing president while he was elected to help the people of his state.
Senator Kirk is perfect example of the huge mistake it was to change our founding fathers method that senators be picked by state officials. The 100 prostitutes in the Senate now are busy running for president or are actually agents for a foreign nation which has learned how to buy a country. Former Prime Minister Sharon was correct when he stated the Israel owns the United States. Senator Kirk is a clear indication that Sharon was right on the mark.
Senator Kirk please stop being an agent for Israel and do something for the state of California. From what I read California is a total mess and the future is dismal. Maybe if you did your job you might help the great suffering of the people of California is facing.
what about R2P? shouldn't nato bomb mr sherman's office?
shouldn't we tie the gentleman from California up strap him to the front of a truck and then sodomize him with broken glass…. isn't that how international law works?
only for NATO's benefit…………..
Brad Sherman is just another Zionista warmongering freak who would do well to sit down and STFU. Mark Kirk would do well to put America first and stop playing shill for Israel.
Can anyone make any kind of a moral distinction between these profoundly mentally and morally defective scumbags and, say, the Zodiac killer? I don't see how.
They know they're bloodthirsty mass-murdering war criminals, we know they're bloodthirsty mass-murdering war criminals, and they know that we know that they're bloodthirsty mass-murdering war criminals. It's all out in the open now, the mask is off, and our Judeo-fascist dictatorship no longer even has to bother to project any pretense of legitimacy.
That such a collection of soulless, criminally insane monsters, who wouldn't be considered morally qualified even to push carts at Walmart (were they to answer the pre-employment questionnaire honestly), have risen to the top levels of political power in the U.S., with their hands on the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen…seems to me almost a supernatural phenomenon; a breathtaking evil portending an inevitable biblical cataclysm.
Unhindered by law or moral compunction, if the people of the U.S. can't stop them; if the people of the U.S. can't even stop themselves from tacitly assisting them; if Russia and China won't stop them; then I hope and I pray for the complete collapse of the U.S. economy/dollar and/or some other kind of disaster, e.g., eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano…whatever it takes to stop the machine before it finally succeeds in ending the world as we know it.
Why do the American people continue to vote into office these Zionist TRAITORS to America?
Sadly – our Congress is filled with such TRAITORS – ALL need to be deported to Israel.
The sad part is that something like 98% of the American people voted for this in the last election. A vote for either Obama or McCain was a vote for this. The candidates on the ballot who would not have supported this I take to be Barr, McKinney and Nader. Or at least there were three relatively major candidates who would not have followed this policy. They got something like 2% of the vote between them.
Of course, our politicians lie so thoroughly these days, that a fair number of that 98% actually probably thought they were voting against this. When Bush ran as the opposition in 2000, he talked a lot about being against 'nation building' and such foreign involvements as compared to what Clinton had done in Yugoslavia and Kosovo. And Obama ran as the opposition in 2008 promising 'change' and offering 'hope' as an alternative to the Bush policy. Which says there's a base in each party that opposes this.
Thus, democracy is subverted by lying, power-hungry politicians. There's a solid group of people in this country who oppose these policies, but they are deluded somehow into voting for the people who support these policies. Which tells me, this changes the day the Republicans who hate this stop voting Republican, and when the Democrats who hate this stop voting for greedy, blood-thirsty wanna-be emperors like Obama.
There were three other choices on the ballot last time. Which unfortunately was probably two too many in a winner-take-all system. But still, people didn't have to vote for this. And, don't blame me … I voted for McKinney. At least I know I've taken at least a small try at trying to say no to this. I didn't vote for a single Dem or Repub in the last election, and unless Ron Paul gets the Repub nomination, I won't vote for a Dem or a Repub in the next general election either. Please join me in this.
Scientist are proving the a psychopath born poor becomes a serial killer but when born rich heads to corporations and Congress. Humanity and true Christian virtues are for the ruled, not the rulers.
LIGHT — FORCES ALL DARKNESS TO GIVE WAY
In 1945, Empire USA was born by the double-nuke vaporizing of Japan, which so terrorized the world into submission that we were able to make Palestine our 51st state — even though it was changed to a fascist Zionist state.
Comes now Iran to have no ability to harm Israel, no plans to invade Israel and to do such a harmless thing as say that all those of European decent should vacate the holy lands of Palestine.
But then to speak the truth, this is a supreme act of terrorism to those who survive only by a total destruction of the truth.
Here's another example of Sen. Mark Kirk's antagonistic relationship with facts:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/senator-mark…
Orwell was so on target when he wrote about the '2 minute hate'.
Its interesting to watch in America how people are trained to hate certain other people. In the case of Iran, its really hard to understand why. Other than the fact that there's been a steady stream of hate-propaganda aimed at Iran ever since the mid-70's. One of the part's of the propaganda was quoting the Ayatolla about calling the US 'the Great Satan' (and given the history of the Shah and Savak, that opinion can probably be understood as its quite likely he personally knew people who were tortured by Savak and the CIA).
But, the US has essentially done the same with anti-Iran hate propaganda ever since. We don't call Iran 'the Great Satan', but we act like they are all the time. Its an inbred, built-in assumption that seems to underlie what passes for thought in this country. That Iran, and the Iranian people, are somehow evil. Why isn't exactly clear? Part of it is that they threw out the CIA and their torturers and the US supported dictator who ran their country. That apparently makes them evil. They took over an embassy that the CIA was using as a spy post in their country and exposed the documents that revealed this. That apparently makes them evil. They've tried to act independently, and they've tried to secure their own defense of their country. That apparently makes them evil.
They are a religious country. One of two major ones that I know of in the world. Israel being the other. But, the thought that being a religious state automatically makes one evil goes out the window every time we call Israel a friend. And besides, most of the people who love Israel and who hate Iran also want America to be a 'Christian nation'. Ie, they generally support the idea of turning the USA into a Christian religious state comparable to Iran.
Basically, to me the reason most people seem to reflexively hate Iran is simply because they've been exposed to propaganda for all or most of their lives telling them that they should hate Iran. I'm not even sure that this Senator could express the reasons for why he has this evil, sadistic, racist genocidal people against Iran and its people. Usually when you come up against such propaganda induced thought patterns, the people involved usually just sputter when you ask for details about why they hate someone. They sputter because they really don't know why when they stop and try to think about it. They just know they hate a group of people and they are sure of it and being evil and sadistic towards those people is just what they are supposed to do.
92 Senators, eh? I knew they were a bloodthirsty lot but this is sick. If someones body were consumed by cancer to the same ratio you'd be right to conclude it was dead. And yet people think you can "reform" such a thing. How sad.
Well, it's not as if they have a sh*t about human suffering. Trying to argue that point with these monsters is like trying to plow in the ocean at high tide.
Actually Jewish-Israelis need to be seriously punished. Their hubris is completely off the charts, and when they see every non-jew out there as some kind of animal to abuse and take advantage of, a righteous ass-whipping of the highest magnitude is the only thing that may have them humbly join the rest of the human race.
Hmmm…. harming civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to advance a political agenda sounds an awful lot like- EXACTLY LIKE- the definition of TERRORISM. It makes no difference if a 'lone wolf' or 'cell' carries it out, or if a modern industrialized nation sponsors and carries it out- TERRORISM IS TERRORISM, period.