[SolidWood]

Unbelievable. It is a long known that the State Department and Diplomats in general are pantsies and sissies, but this utter cowardice is incredible. The troops over there don’t complain when deployed. (Well except the handful traitors running to Canada to avoid service.)

[SolidWood]

Allegra, you have to read this!

[pnh102]

The troops over there don’t complain when deployed.

Our troops also do not have the option of simply quitting and finding a new job if they do not like their current line of work either. These whiners do.

[Joan Kerrey]

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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Could be payback time and cleanup time. I don’t see a problem here...heh,heh,heh!!!

[Allegra]

"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.