State's Bad Deeds Head to Baghdad

townhall.com ^ | March 31, 2003 | Joel Mowbray

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Continuing the State Department’s efforts to undermine President Bush in Iraq, Consular chief Maura Harty recently filled two key Iraq-related positions with people whose track records suggest nothing but incompetence—or worse—coziness with the House of Saud.  Supposed “agent of change” Harty recently named a former top deputy of “courtesy culture” pioneer Mary Ryan (Harty’s predecessor who was pushed out last summer) to a high-level State Department task force, and then she chose as the consular chief for the new Baghdad embassy a woman who enjoys very close relations with the Saudi royal family. Continued

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I know that President Bush is busy. I wish someone with pull could tell him/alert him to this continuing problem.

[joesnuffy]

The Saudi version of islamic democracy isnt too palatable either
I hope we arent gonna just trade Baaths for Wahhabis..

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I'm just concerned that in a year or so, some really bad thing will happen because of these incompetent/semi-traitorous people in State, and Pres. Bush's enemies will try to blame him. I wish, as I have heard others say, that Pres. Bush would really clean house at the State Dept. and put in true, pro-American statesmen.

[expatpat]

Probably a lesbian cabal operating here.

[boris]

Mata Hari?