From the Toledo Blade:
WASHINGTON - The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and says it will soon start identifying prime candidates for jobs at the Baghdad embassy and in outlying provinces, according to a cable obtained yesterday by the Associated Press.
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"We face a growing challenge of supply and demand in the 2009 staffing cycle," the cable said, noting that more than 20 percent of the nearly 12,000 foreign service officers have already worked in the two major hardship posts, Iraq and Afghanistan, and a growing number have done tours in both countries.
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Yesterday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that she had been personally offended by the critical comments of some diplomats who questioned the ethics of sending people against their will to a war zone.
One diplomat, at an October meeting, called the forced assignments a "potential death sentence" to loud applause.
Ah, but the surge is working! The diplomats should have no fear.
So Condi is "personally offended" that anyone dares to question her ethics. Condi, get real. You're the one who told the CIA, “This is your baby. Go do it!” the "baby" and the "it" being torture, my friends, just in case you're wondering.
Equal opportunity for Democrats for once, I'll bet.
ReplyDeletePhil, as cynical as I've become, I never actually thought of that. Of course, you could be right. Thanks for visiting.
ReplyDeleteThe Secretary's ethics were laid out for the world to see when she was shopping for shoes on Fifth Ave in Manhattan while hundreds suffered in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina and our government was unable to coordinate offers of aid from other countries. Should the Secretary of State been at her desk perhaps? Or at least have had the decency not to go shopping?
ReplyDeleteAlso when she was all over the media claiming "no one could have imagined" the 9/11 attacks -what was her job then? Oh, yeah - NATIONAL SECURITY Advisor. It was her job to imagine. Lying is unethical too.
C.W.S., we all have our favorite moments with Condi, but one of mine would have to be when she sat before the 9/11 commission holding the April 12, 2001, intelligence report titled, "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the U.S.", with a dumb look on her face and said that it was a historical document.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has grown up in any "sick" family system knows the old line where you do not question anything.
ReplyDeleteIf people criticize and question in this admin, they are excoriated.
This is so sick. Let f-ing Condi move her office to Iraq.
Let f-ing Condi move her office to Iraq.
ReplyDeleteFran, excellent idea. Send it in.
Condi is "personally offended"! The gall of these bastards! I'm totally with Fran's proposal on this one.
ReplyDeleteI'll volunteer to help her pack.
ReplyDeleteShe'll have a team to help her pack.
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