U.S. State Department of Cowards Now Open

posted by Bill Arnett @ 9:28 AM Permalink

This is just so damned ironic I still can't stop laughing:

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."

In a contentious hourlong town-hall meeting, they peppered officials responsible for the order with often hostile complaints about the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam. Announced last week, it will require some diplomats _ under threat of dismissal _ to serve at the embassy in Baghdad and in reconstruction teams in outlying provinces.[…]

"Incoming is coming in every day, rockets are hitting the Green Zone," said Jack Croddy, a senior foreign service officer who once worked as a political adviser with NATO forces.

He and others confronted Foreign Service Director General Harry Thomas, who approved the move to "directed assignments" late last Friday to make up for a lack of volunteers willing to go to Iraq.

"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers, but it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment," Croddy said. "I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?"

Maybe if these diplomats had done their jobs BEFORE bush attacked Iraq their presence in Iraq might not be required. It's funny because bush has staffed every agency in government with his cronies, who are now showing their true color: YELLOW.

What is not funny is that these lousy cowards like Croddy would even have the nerve to actually say, "…'I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?'" when he obviously doesn't give a damn about who will care for the children of dead or injured American troops.

Yella-bellied, sniveling, crybaby cowards every one, and none of them would amount to a pimple on the a$$ of our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.

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