...Wow. Reading these comments makes me depressed. You people seriously think that just because he's a Republican, he's instantly full of crap whenever he speaks about anything? I'd be willing to wager that if a Republican congressman said that Justin Bieber is terrible, some of you would suddenly support Bieber just to spite them.
This is coming from a left-leaning independent, for the record.
@KamuntKurush "...Wow. Reading these comments makes me depressed. You people seriously think that just because he's a Republican, he's instantly full of crap whenever he speaks about anything?"
What you are witnessing is the awakening of the general public. What you still believe to be 'your' government, is in actuality controlled by the criminal cartel that creates 'your' money. That same group that caused the collapse and rape of this country yet saw no jail time.
How do we know that Iran's nuclear program is military? There is no proof.
Therefore, we can assume the position of having to be persuaded that it IS military rather than being in the position of being persuaded that it is not.
This is the real need for Iran's nuclear program:
Iran has an abundance of oil. It uses it in it's own power plants and to export abroad. If it runs mainly on nuclear plants, it can sell more of it's oil, increasing its wealth and influence.
@senatorkirk hypocrisy dont you think? Who was it that invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, killed a few hundred thousand, and was the cause of terror not peace? Justify it as much as you want with the money they give you, but soon your guilt will be a burden
funny that!! iran signed the nuclear non-profileration treaty israel did not.. the assanation attempt on the saudi ambassador was baseless and without fact... the iaea report is political and should be treated as false
If this fails then USA have to go to war agaist Iran. If happens, alot Iranian people will die and the gas will go up. It will be very bad but if Iran gets nuclear bomb it will be even worst.
Iranians making hard on them self. I love USA and its really good idea to target Central Bank of Iran. If Iran's Central Bank or entities that deal with the Central Bank are going to be sanctioned, it means Iran's ability to import goods and finance imports will be more costly and pressure its foreign exchange reserves.Ordinary Iranians are likely to bear considerable financial pain as the economic situation in Tehran becomes increasingly desperate.They hate USA so let them suffer the pain.!
A country built on the genocide of an entire race and set of cultures has the moral higher ground to a country that has not invaded another country for over two and a half centuries.
collapse the central bank in iran? is that a joke? you did not explain how ruining the entire country's economy would HELP anything? Sociology 101: people with jobs and a paycheck are far less likely to engage in violence than those without....
this is the worst fear based propaganda i have ever seen. i have lost a great deal of respect for senator kirk. i mean the music in the background? really, was that supposed to convince me to support this crap?
@MrIfly73 You obviously don't know a damn thing about Islam beyond what CNN told you.
First of all, radical Islamic sects often buy human beings through human trafficking networks to use as suicide bombers.
Second of all, while many fringe Islamic groups use suicide bombers to target organizations that they feel threatened by, the state of Iran is not going to sacrifice its people in a nuclear war, not even to wipe Israel off the map.
What is 'Jihad'? Do you actually know what that word means in Islam?
There is 'Inner Jihad' and 'Outer Jihad'. Inner Jihad is the war you fight against your own animal nature in the hope of conquering it and subjugating it to your human nature.
Outer Jihad is the war that you fight when the Muslim ummah is attacked.
It is haraam (forbidden) to go to war for resources, land, or to falsely and forcibly 'convert' people to Islam.
We should not try to crash the central bank in Iran. This is all insane. Sanctions harm the innocent people of Iran, people just like us trying to live their lives. Frankly, I'm appalled that my senator co-authored a bill to impose harder sanctions in Iran. It's hypocritical for the United States to suggest that another nation shouldn't have nuclear weapons. I might remind those reading this that the United States is the only nation to use nuclear weapons against a civilian population. Thanks.
According to Sen. Kirk's website, his goal is to "collapse" Iran's Central Bank. Is that not an act of war? That is much more than diplomatic pressure. That's an attempt to cause harm to a foreign government, whether or not you agree that Iran is a security issue.
Well done Senator Kirk, thank you for your hard work. Anyone that threatens us and thinks they can get away with it...There is truth to everything we say whether it be a joke or a threat. Its time Iran stop the childish mind games of threats (destruction of the West and Israel) and denial (trying to make nukes). If someone threatened to kill your son, daughter, wife or husband what would you do?... I would make sure that person never got the opportunity to do what he/she says.
Stop for a minute and think honestly to yourselves about the responses to Senator Kirks effort to receive useful feed back concerning a situation that is literally a matter of life or death for the entire planet. You're entitled to your feelings toward past administrations but they are not the question at hand. I suggest that you think about the situation and submit ideas that can be considered so that a wise decision can be made on behalf our country and others though they may be our enemies.
Another scared tactic by a politician. I heard the same thing prior to us invading Iraq by George Bush that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That turned out, as we all know, to be false and quite frankly an embellishment to its highest extent of dramalization.
Sen. Kirk.... listen to the people, your constituents. What you are saying and proposing is wrong. You know the IAEA report is bogus. The whole objective here, like the egregious Libya situation, attacks on Syria, Iraq, etc., is to benefit the military/financial complex and Israel. Please get your priorities straight. #1=America and 99% of its citizens. One would have expected that with your intelligence background that you would have studied the false lead-ups to WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, etc.
I'm sorry, I lost you @0:24 How can the IAEA be the UN's nuclear watchdog and be independent at the same time? Anyway, you should get Rummy to make you some 3D drawings of those missles, you know, like the 3D drawings he had of the high tech cave bunkers. I wish you would be as concerned about the US government walking real guns into Mexico as you are about Iran's alleged nuke.
I do not agree with the Senator. Why should he do the bidding for Israel? In the video, he says that we should hold Iran accountable to the NPT, then goes on to talk about collapsing the Central bank. What would that serve? How about the US build a non-plutonium producing nuclear plant, Iran gets the electrical energy its population needs, we get NPT compliance. Sounds better than war. Even the profiteers can make a buck, folks like GE that don't pay taxes.
Kirk is right on. Too bad we don't have republican leadership in the executive branch of government. Remember Mc Cain singing "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" ? Maybe Senator Kirk will become our next Secretary of State.
When will these boneheads ever learn we can no longer be the world's policeman? Some hard evidence is needed before we again try to remake the Mideast to our liking. Do they need a new source of income for their Halliburton buddies now that we're getting out of Iraq? Why can't they do something constructive, like tackle some of the issues here at home that are more important?
Unfortunately this is one of my shithead senators. IL always has the worst politicians......What he doesn't realize is that sanctions hurt the people that have nothing to do with it. They are hurting the poor and middle class people in this country, who are effected by this only because they were born there and are just trying to get by and feed their families....SHAME ON YOU SENATOR KIRK!
@VoteLib3rty i know you are the first person who gets it. this is just another iraq a false acusation to envade iran mark my words it will happen. have you seen the video game battlefield 3?
That is in direct violation of NPT and UN orders. Obviously, the only reason for withholding the intelligence is because the books are cooked. Just like Niger-Yellowcake, we now have all of this bullshit.
Sen. Kirk also made mention of the Iranian 'bomb plot.' What he failed to mention was that every single Iranian expert, along with plenty of intelligence personnel, openly ridiculed the plan as an absolute farce. He also failed to say that it was part of an FBI sting operation.
"The IAEA, the United Nations INDEPENDENT nuclear watchdog..."
Mark Kirk is a moron. I wanted to stop the video right here, but I decided to go on. The new director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, was discussed in a Wikileaks cable as “solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.”
The 'intelligence reports' cited in the IAEA report were also not handed over to outside sources or Iran.
The only reason Iran might be a threat is because we keep saying that we will bomb it so their response is to get a nuke so we dont fuck with it. its simple as that, US is a bully in this case and our victim tries to learn krav maga so we dont pick on it anymore.
Full support from me. What bother's me most is what the heck is wrong with our president???? WHY IS HE NOT DOING THIS HIMSELF?? Hope people wake up and he is gone next election... Mark you should be running for president.!!!!!!!!
Yes, Iran is a threat, but why? Why are they so anti-American? Why are they so anti-Israel? Maybe if we look back to post WWII we might get some clues and look at the occupation of Israel, maybe we could better understand why some (not all) Palestinians have resorted to terrorism. I wonder what Americans would do if Indian lands were given back and we 'not native' Americans got pushed into a few corners of the Country. How would we react? Would we just roll over and say OK? Doubt it!
...IT IS TRULY TOO BAD THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANYONE WILL BE ABLE TO DO ABOUT THIS IN THIS, GOD-FORSAKEN POLITICALLY CORRECT WORLD! THIS PROBLEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED, YEARS AGO! I BLAME JIMMY CARTER AND ALL WHO HAVE FOLLOWED!
Agreed shut them down 200% the middle east is the very problem. They are just ridiculous. Anybody to kill them selves,just to kill some people are just brainless.These people need 2 be taught a lesson.They need to be completely blocked from coming to the USA ! After all that has happened, have no business here in USA .These kind of people have done this to themselves. They deserve everything that is coming to them & what has already been done ! Obama if a clue he would AGREE 2.Support Mark Kirk
Israel kicked off the arms race with its nuclear program in the 1960's. Israel, in the words of Jim Trafficant, uses the USA "like a whore" to wage wars on countries that are no threat to the USA (according to our national intelligence estimates) but which are theoretical threats to Israel. (See Wiki article on "Clean-Break: Strategy for securing the real.) Senators, obedient to AIPAC approved of war on Iraq when it had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. No more wars for parasitic Israel.
Iran has systematically engaged in nuclear weapon development for many years. Coupled with its rabid, anti-western, anti-Israel foreign policy and its continued support of terrorist organizations, it is incumbent upon our government to use all means to halt the Iranian nuclear program immediately. Iran poses an imminent danger to America, Israel and Western Europe.
@wcolman since when is the USA and its guard-dogs are going to continue invading countries for their oil? its clearly their oil and who gave the athoritie to the USA to make rules and tell what other countries should do and not do? its clear that this is all a lie if you believe this then you are brain washed or you are one of those who are in the goverment and are planning to envade.
more propanganda? iran said its peaceful and you come up with all this
localSickened 2 days ago
All, let Mark have his say and recover quickly. We all need more like him.
pr4runner 3 weeks ago
...Wow. Reading these comments makes me depressed. You people seriously think that just because he's a Republican, he's instantly full of crap whenever he speaks about anything? I'd be willing to wager that if a Republican congressman said that Justin Bieber is terrible, some of you would suddenly support Bieber just to spite them.
This is coming from a left-leaning independent, for the record.
KamuntKurush 3 weeks ago
@KamuntKurush "...Wow. Reading these comments makes me depressed. You people seriously think that just because he's a Republican, he's instantly full of crap whenever he speaks about anything?"
What you are witnessing is the awakening of the general public. What you still believe to be 'your' government, is in actuality controlled by the criminal cartel that creates 'your' money. That same group that caused the collapse and rape of this country yet saw no jail time.
VoteLib3rty 3 weeks ago
what kind of brain whashed bull shit is this? holy shit is this the whole iraq thing again? come on people dont be stupid to believe this.
juanlmes 3 weeks ago
A very important point:
How do we know that Iran's nuclear program is military? There is no proof.
Therefore, we can assume the position of having to be persuaded that it IS military rather than being in the position of being persuaded that it is not.
This is the real need for Iran's nuclear program:
Iran has an abundance of oil. It uses it in it's own power plants and to export abroad. If it runs mainly on nuclear plants, it can sell more of it's oil, increasing its wealth and influence.
shaamanplatinum 1 month ago
@senatorkirk hypocrisy dont you think? Who was it that invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, killed a few hundred thousand, and was the cause of terror not peace? Justify it as much as you want with the money they give you, but soon your guilt will be a burden
baghali222 1 month ago
how much did the lobbyists pay you to chat this shit?
baghali222 1 month ago
@Fideexpert kirk had a good ole american stand tall cheesburger induced brain fart
zacatetas 1 month ago
@Fideexpert yeah hes a vegetable now , good luck with that.
zacatetas 1 month ago
mark kirks right side of the brain wouldnt know a nuke from a puke.......hiiiiiiiyooooh!
zacatetas 1 month ago
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"Former Mossad chief: Iran is far from achieving nuclear bomb." Haaretz, January 22, 2012
"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: Iran Has Not Yet Decided to Make a Nuclear Bomb" FOXNEWS January 08, 2012
FantomasXZ7 1 month ago
Iran makes nuclear weapons.
America plans to invade Iran.
America attacks Iran.
Iran uses nuclear weapons against America.
America uses nuclear weapons against Iran.
Iran's allies attack America.
America's allies attack Iran and it's allies.
GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR
RixPixable 1 month ago
funny that!! iran signed the nuclear non-profileration treaty israel did not.. the assanation attempt on the saudi ambassador was baseless and without fact... the iaea report is political and should be treated as false
BEANO266 1 month ago
Sen Kirk is next President !
Fideexpert 2 months ago
We stand tall. We see further into the future.I'm proud to be American and God bless United States.
Fideexpert 2 months ago
If this fails then USA have to go to war agaist Iran. If happens, alot Iranian people will die and the gas will go up. It will be very bad but if Iran gets nuclear bomb it will be even worst.
Fideexpert 2 months ago
Iranians making hard on them self. I love USA and its really good idea to target Central Bank of Iran. If Iran's Central Bank or entities that deal with the Central Bank are going to be sanctioned, it means Iran's ability to import goods and finance imports will be more costly and pressure its foreign exchange reserves.Ordinary Iranians are likely to bear considerable financial pain as the economic situation in Tehran becomes increasingly desperate.They hate USA so let them suffer the pain.!
Fideexpert 2 months ago
@Fideexpert
A country built on the genocide of an entire race and set of cultures has the moral higher ground to a country that has not invaded another country for over two and a half centuries.
Show me the logic.
shaamanplatinum 1 month ago
collapse the central bank in iran? is that a joke? you did not explain how ruining the entire country's economy would HELP anything? Sociology 101: people with jobs and a paycheck are far less likely to engage in violence than those without....
this is the worst fear based propaganda i have ever seen. i have lost a great deal of respect for senator kirk. i mean the music in the background? really, was that supposed to convince me to support this crap?
JulianneNeely 2 months ago
WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE TO US IF IRAN GETS A NUKE!?!? They won't use it against us for the same reason Russia didn't use it against us.
arbadacarbada 2 months ago
@arbadacarbada Of course they will. Suicide is a positive experience in Jihad. Not so in Russia.
MrIfly73 2 months ago
@MrIfly73 You obviously don't know a damn thing about Islam beyond what CNN told you.
First of all, radical Islamic sects often buy human beings through human trafficking networks to use as suicide bombers.
Second of all, while many fringe Islamic groups use suicide bombers to target organizations that they feel threatened by, the state of Iran is not going to sacrifice its people in a nuclear war, not even to wipe Israel off the map.
arbadacarbada 1 month ago
@MrIfly73
What is 'Jihad'? Do you actually know what that word means in Islam?
There is 'Inner Jihad' and 'Outer Jihad'. Inner Jihad is the war you fight against your own animal nature in the hope of conquering it and subjugating it to your human nature.
Outer Jihad is the war that you fight when the Muslim ummah is attacked.
It is haraam (forbidden) to go to war for resources, land, or to falsely and forcibly 'convert' people to Islam.
Iran understands this.
shaamanplatinum 1 month ago
We should not try to crash the central bank in Iran. This is all insane. Sanctions harm the innocent people of Iran, people just like us trying to live their lives. Frankly, I'm appalled that my senator co-authored a bill to impose harder sanctions in Iran. It's hypocritical for the United States to suggest that another nation shouldn't have nuclear weapons. I might remind those reading this that the United States is the only nation to use nuclear weapons against a civilian population. Thanks.
spoomusic 3 months ago
Sounds like Iraq all over again..
krazielegz707 3 months ago
china and ussr wont let you
asiq1987 3 months ago
According to Sen. Kirk's website, his goal is to "collapse" Iran's Central Bank. Is that not an act of war? That is much more than diplomatic pressure. That's an attempt to cause harm to a foreign government, whether or not you agree that Iran is a security issue.
1stb1 3 months ago
Well done Senator Kirk, thank you for your hard work. Anyone that threatens us and thinks they can get away with it...There is truth to everything we say whether it be a joke or a threat. Its time Iran stop the childish mind games of threats (destruction of the West and Israel) and denial (trying to make nukes). If someone threatened to kill your son, daughter, wife or husband what would you do?... I would make sure that person never got the opportunity to do what he/she says.
jchizick 3 months ago
Stop for a minute and think honestly to yourselves about the responses to Senator Kirks effort to receive useful feed back concerning a situation that is literally a matter of life or death for the entire planet. You're entitled to your feelings toward past administrations but they are not the question at hand. I suggest that you think about the situation and submit ideas that can be considered so that a wise decision can be made on behalf our country and others though they may be our enemies.
MrMastron1000 3 months ago
Another scared tactic by a politician. I heard the same thing prior to us invading Iraq by George Bush that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That turned out, as we all know, to be false and quite frankly an embellishment to its highest extent of dramalization.
scfloyd1 3 months ago
@scfloyd1 And fuck Colin Powell for being a scumbag liar about it!
arbadacarbada 2 months ago
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Sen. Kirk.... listen to the people, your constituents. What you are saying and proposing is wrong. You know the IAEA report is bogus. The whole objective here, like the egregious Libya situation, attacks on Syria, Iraq, etc., is to benefit the military/financial complex and Israel. Please get your priorities straight. #1=America and 99% of its citizens. One would have expected that with your intelligence background that you would have studied the false lead-ups to WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, etc.
xrosserx 3 months ago
I'm sorry, I lost you @0:24 How can the IAEA be the UN's nuclear watchdog and be independent at the same time? Anyway, you should get Rummy to make you some 3D drawings of those missles, you know, like the 3D drawings he had of the high tech cave bunkers. I wish you would be as concerned about the US government walking real guns into Mexico as you are about Iran's alleged nuke.
801D012 3 months ago 2
@009900aryan IAEA has no credibility left, the Zionist has over 200 nukes and its oky, lol
americaisevil1 3 months ago
I do not agree with the Senator. Why should he do the bidding for Israel? In the video, he says that we should hold Iran accountable to the NPT, then goes on to talk about collapsing the Central bank. What would that serve? How about the US build a non-plutonium producing nuclear plant, Iran gets the electrical energy its population needs, we get NPT compliance. Sounds better than war. Even the profiteers can make a buck, folks like GE that don't pay taxes.
WeSayFightback 3 months ago
Kirk is right on. Too bad we don't have republican leadership in the executive branch of government. Remember Mc Cain singing "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" ? Maybe Senator Kirk will become our next Secretary of State.
Worldleader777 3 months ago
Congradulations on leaving the comments feature enabled for this video, now listen to the people...
doug0chi 3 months ago
When will these boneheads ever learn we can no longer be the world's policeman? Some hard evidence is needed before we again try to remake the Mideast to our liking. Do they need a new source of income for their Halliburton buddies now that we're getting out of Iraq? Why can't they do something constructive, like tackle some of the issues here at home that are more important?
jbird20ful 3 months ago
Unfortunately this is one of my shithead senators. IL always has the worst politicians......What he doesn't realize is that sanctions hurt the people that have nothing to do with it. They are hurting the poor and middle class people in this country, who are effected by this only because they were born there and are just trying to get by and feed their families....SHAME ON YOU SENATOR KIRK!
toria555 3 months ago
Hmmm... why does this all sound so familiar....
VoteLib3rty 3 months ago
@VoteLib3rty i know you are the first person who gets it. this is just another iraq a false acusation to envade iran mark my words it will happen. have you seen the video game battlefield 3?
juanlmes 3 weeks ago
I guess the person who signed on before me has a web name that says it all. I agree with Senator Kirk.
larry12431 3 months ago
That is in direct violation of NPT and UN orders. Obviously, the only reason for withholding the intelligence is because the books are cooked. Just like Niger-Yellowcake, we now have all of this bullshit.
Sen. Kirk also made mention of the Iranian 'bomb plot.' What he failed to mention was that every single Iranian expert, along with plenty of intelligence personnel, openly ridiculed the plan as an absolute farce. He also failed to say that it was part of an FBI sting operation.
airhead194 3 months ago
"The IAEA, the United Nations INDEPENDENT nuclear watchdog..."
Mark Kirk is a moron. I wanted to stop the video right here, but I decided to go on. The new director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, was discussed in a Wikileaks cable as “solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.”
The 'intelligence reports' cited in the IAEA report were also not handed over to outside sources or Iran.
airhead194 3 months ago
watch this if you wan to go against Iran
/watch?v=8XQan1qo8T4
NIGHTMAREuki 3 months ago
The only reason Iran might be a threat is because we keep saying that we will bomb it so their response is to get a nuke so we dont fuck with it. its simple as that, US is a bully in this case and our victim tries to learn krav maga so we dont pick on it anymore.
NIGHTMAREuki 3 months ago
Full support from me. What bother's me most is what the heck is wrong with our president???? WHY IS HE NOT DOING THIS HIMSELF?? Hope people wake up and he is gone next election... Mark you should be running for president.!!!!!!!!
lor060635 3 months ago
Yes, Iran is a threat, but why? Why are they so anti-American? Why are they so anti-Israel? Maybe if we look back to post WWII we might get some clues and look at the occupation of Israel, maybe we could better understand why some (not all) Palestinians have resorted to terrorism. I wonder what Americans would do if Indian lands were given back and we 'not native' Americans got pushed into a few corners of the Country. How would we react? Would we just roll over and say OK? Doubt it!
339sdg 3 months ago
...IT IS TRULY TOO BAD THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANYONE WILL BE ABLE TO DO ABOUT THIS IN THIS, GOD-FORSAKEN POLITICALLY CORRECT WORLD! THIS PROBLEM SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED, YEARS AGO! I BLAME JIMMY CARTER AND ALL WHO HAVE FOLLOWED!
jettbugg 3 months ago
I support Mark Kirk and I am in agreement with the dangers we face in the 21st Century.
122131cw 3 months ago
Agreed shut them down 200% the middle east is the very problem. They are just ridiculous. Anybody to kill them selves,just to kill some people are just brainless.These people need 2 be taught a lesson.They need to be completely blocked from coming to the USA ! After all that has happened, have no business here in USA .These kind of people have done this to themselves. They deserve everything that is coming to them & what has already been done ! Obama if a clue he would AGREE 2.Support Mark Kirk
2DIE4U2 3 months ago
Israel kicked off the arms race with its nuclear program in the 1960's. Israel, in the words of Jim Trafficant, uses the USA "like a whore" to wage wars on countries that are no threat to the USA (according to our national intelligence estimates) but which are theoretical threats to Israel. (See Wiki article on "Clean-Break: Strategy for securing the real.) Senators, obedient to AIPAC approved of war on Iraq when it had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. No more wars for parasitic Israel.
trimetrodon 3 months ago
Iran has systematically engaged in nuclear weapon development for many years. Coupled with its rabid, anti-western, anti-Israel foreign policy and its continued support of terrorist organizations, it is incumbent upon our government to use all means to halt the Iranian nuclear program immediately. Iran poses an imminent danger to America, Israel and Western Europe.
wcolman 3 months ago
@wcolman since when is the USA and its guard-dogs are going to continue invading countries for their oil? its clearly their oil and who gave the athoritie to the USA to make rules and tell what other countries should do and not do? its clear that this is all a lie if you believe this then you are brain washed or you are one of those who are in the goverment and are planning to envade.
juanlmes 3 weeks ago
this is a good idea. shut them down.
tireoil63 3 months ago