US drops plan to force diplomats to Iraq

Source: AP via Yahoo

The State Department is dropping plans to force diplomats to serve in Iraq because volunteers have filled all 48 vacant positions at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and in outlying provinces, The Associated Press has learned.

The department will announce it no longer needs to move to "directed assignments" for Iraq once personnel panels give a formal OK to foreign service officers who signed up for the remaining three open jobs, U.S. officials said Thursday. Those three diplomats have won tentative approval, they said...

The announcement will be major relief for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the department's senior management. They had struggled to quell a revolt among diplomats who questioned the ethics of ordering unarmed civilians into a war zone under penalty of dismissal....

More than 1,500 diplomats have volunteered to work in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. But the resistance to forced assignments generated bitter criticism of the diplomatic corps...Three foreign service personnel — two diplomatic security agents and one political officer — have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.







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heard nothing but fucking lies since the late fall of 2000.

But I'm inclined to think Condi blinked. I'm not inclined to think the positions were snaped up by eager diplomats. If they were, maybe all the Bushbots are the ones going in! (We can hope)

heavy duty promises as inducements to going or they got a pass on some wrongdoing.

in mass graves who have been killed by WMD in iraq....then...AFTER THE OUTRAGE...they said..okay you win...we will bring them home in coffins...just don't picture them...WE WON...no we did not!

Damn, you are smart. Or cynical.

Is blackwater now starting a diplomatic corps?

Plus look at their life stories. Horrible miserables failures at everything they have ever tried except of course for Condi she was a protege with at piano and ice skating. She DOMINATED the ice skating competitions where she lived when she was a kid



























Black ice skating















in the early 60's























in Alabama

She stood out from the crowd.

and everything else is classified!