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  • Diplomats Honored For Dissent; Envoys Challenged Bush Foreign Policy

    06/27/2004 8:43:15 PM PDT · by Pikamax · 12 replies · 341+ views
    Diplomats Honored For Dissent Envoys Challenged Bush Foreign Policy By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 2004; Page A19 Budapest is a long way from Baghdad, but in May 2003, a U.S. Foreign Service officer in the Hungarian capital became convinced that American policy in Iraq was going awry. And he spoke up. In a cable routed through the State Department's "dissent channel," Keith W. Mines argued a case -- long rejected by the White House -- that the United Nations should be given control over Iraq's political transition. "There is no value in imposing an American...