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Postings to Iraq Upset Diplomats
AP ^
| 10-31-2007
| By MATTHEW LEE
Posted on 10/31/2007 1:36:36 PM PDT by johnny7
WASHINGTON (AP) Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department's decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a "potential death sentence."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cowards; iraq; pissants; usembassy; wot
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To: SolidWood
diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department’s decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a “potential death sentence.”
Could be payback time and cleanup time. I don’t see a problem here...heh,heh,heh!!!
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posted on
10/31/2007 1:54:54 PM PDT
by
Joan Kerrey
(Believe nothing of what you hear or read and half of what you see.)
To: pnh102
Fire anyone of them who refuses to go. They volunteered to be diplomats. Sucks to have an assignment outside of the Green Zone where they may not have cold drinks and swimming pools.
To: johnny7
To: johnny7
Give me the pay and benefits of the State Department and Blackwater to protect me and I’ll happily go. This is just anti-Americanism by the people at State.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:02:11 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: CholeraJoe
Meet em at the airport and hand out socks and crying towels, Allegra. Youve been there what four years? Four years come January '08.
I've seen fire and I've seen rain.
I've seen war and now...I'm seeing the beginning of peace. Yes, peace is breaking out in Iraq. (What?? The media isn't talking about this back home???)
What an amazing journey and an absolute life affirming experience.
And what a bunch of weinies those loafer-wearing, latte-sipping, Blackberry-addicted State Department people are.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:02:42 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: Doctor Raoul
"He also stressed that all diplomats sign an oath to serve the country that obligates them to be available to work anywhere in the world." That must be the problem. They didn't understand what they signed. (Hee hee hee)
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
To: johnny7
diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department's decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq, with some likening it to a "potential death sentence." Oh, quit your freakin' whining, you bunch of State Department snots. "Potential death sentence." Please. What a gaggle of drama queens.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:05:28 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: pissant
I’m sure that with all of their ‘people skills’ they’ll be able to find jobs at McDonalds or Burger King with very little trouble.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:14:57 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
To: johnny7
Time to clean out the State Department. Fire them all and start over again. “Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:17:52 PM PDT
by
Reaganesque
(Romney for President 2008)
To: airborne
I doubt they are qualified for any real labor such as burger flipping. Used Car salesmen, perhaps.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:18:43 PM PDT
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: johnny7
STATE DEPARTMENT UNION HEAD RESPONDS TO FORCED IRAQ POSTINGS"I'm not going and you can't make me!"
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:38:01 PM PDT
by
Leisler
(RNC, Rino National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
To: Leisler
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:41:53 PM PDT
by
Leisler
(RNC, Rino National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
To: SolidWood
"Incoming is coming in every day, rockets are hitting the Green Zone," said one who identified himself as Jack Crotty, a senior foreign service officer who once worked as a political adviser with NATO forces. Oh, give me a break! Incoming is not coming into the Green Zone these days! I just had a serve a few days' sentence in the Green Zone for meetings. There hasn't been a hit on the place in months.
"I would just urge you, now that now we are looking at compulsory service in a war zone, that we have a moral imperative as an agency to take care of people who ... come back with war wounds," said Rachel Schnelling...
Oh, cry me a freakin' RIVER! Almost everybody comes back from Iraq with no "war wounds." I've never seen such a bunch of whiny drama queens in my life.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:46:12 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: johnny7
I was at a military exchage in Germany and was told that as retired military I couldn’t shop there. I asked about the obviously non-military 20-something type shopping and was told he was State Department.
Send them to Iraq, they can use the exchanges to buy their crying towels.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:53:47 PM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Energy plan: Build refineries and nuke plants, drill for our oil, mine our coal.)
To: Allegra
As a are retired foreign service officer who served in hardship and danger posts, including in Iran during the fall of the Shah and the arrival of Khomeini, I am ashamed of such a response from many of my former colleagues. Many foreign service officers have lost their lives in the service of their country. The current crop dishonors their memory.
Part of the problem is that many FSOs today have never served in the military. I am a Vietnam vet with 8 years of military service and most of the FSOs I served with when I entered in 1972 had military service. They understood that their job could involve being exposed to dangerous situations. Since the end of WWII, more ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty than generals. Our embassies have been blown up around the globe and many US diplomats killed or injured. This sounds more like a political statement than anything else. Shame.
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posted on
10/31/2007 2:58:33 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: johnny7
Department of State has always been a fifth column organization. Bunch of know-it-all elitist who have very little to feel elite about.
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posted on
10/31/2007 3:11:02 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Liberals love "McCarthism," they just believe he was targeting the wrong side.)
To: johnny7
This is a Reagan vs. the Aircraft Controllers union opportunity. Everyone who refuses to go and gets fired will be one less anti-American leaker at Foggy Bottom. The only questions should be how many do we need to fire (I fear that 88-12 split may be meaningful), how quickly we can replace then with pro-American types and how few we can get by with during the transition. Ideally we get someone like Bolton to suggest whom we want to send as a way of purging them.
To: Enterprise
The State department recruiters lied to them.
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posted on
10/31/2007 3:14:19 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
To: johnny7
...As long as these liberal "Government bureaucrats(State/CIA)" were safe/cozy and @ home, these "bureaucrats" turned traitor on GWB, now they’re being placed in positions, where there is real danger......maybe now they’ll start doing their jobs...if not, then they should be fired.
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posted on
10/31/2007 3:17:33 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: Doctor Raoul
There was only so much that Condi could do to change the Department. Bush is deeply unpopular at State and Rice is seen as "Bush's Secretary". They pine for a Clinton Restoration, and Iraq is seen as "Bush's War". There are a lot of people here who don't understand that. DOS never supported the GWOT, even under Powell. It's a Clintonite outpost.
Don't blame Condi for this. Hell, she's the one who instituted the draft and has tried to push some necessary reforms, such as moving people out of Paris and Berlin and moving them to Calcutta and Bangkok.
If Fred or Rudy become President, there are those in the Department who will positively die.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
10/31/2007 3:21:17 PM PDT
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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