US State Dept.-go to Iraq or you are fired (draft?)

[underpants]

State Dept. to order U.S. diplomats to Iraq, or else

by Frank James

Reports this morning indicate the State Department will order hundreds of its diplomats to Iraq or they face being asked for their resignations. That's diplo-speak for they will be fired.

The same reports say this is the first time mandatory assignments of such size have been made since the Vietnam War.

This isn't a surprising development. Ever since it became apparent that the U.S. had opened a Pandora's Box of violence after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, there's been a debate inside State that push might come literally to shove, that the agency might have to force its diplomats to abide by the agreement they made on entering the foreign service that they would be "worldwide available," even to serve in a war zone.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/state_dept_to_order_us_diploma.html

Draft comes to US diplomacy in Iraq
28 Oct 2007, 0020 hrs IST,Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Draft_comes_to_US_diplomacy_in_Iraq/articleshow/2495927.cms

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. This makes me sick. All of it just so corporations can get their piece of the Iraq pie.

Send the CEOs. Let them live there.

[luckyleftyme2]

4. may they be first TO GO

all past and present ceo's of halliburton and other oil companies. next all ceo's of wal-mart or other chains buying goods that were or could be manufacture in the U.S.A.!
LETS MAKE THIS PART OF THe DEMPCRATIC PLATFORM OF 2008
LET'S MAKE THIS OUR NEW EXPORT POLICY
ANY MEMBER OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT VOTED,PUSHED OR SUGGESTED TO CONTINUE THIS
MIS- MANAGED IRAQ WAR!9now a police action)after 2006

[LakeSamish706]

2. Sorry but if this were me they wouldn't have to fire me... I would be so gone... n/t

[Jim__]

3. I'm hoping for a boatload of resignations from the State Department. - n/t

[underpants]

5. THEY might be too

They already have basically sleeper cells in Justice to manipulate over the next 20 or so years. Why would we be surprised if they were trying to put ops into State as well?

[tanyev]

9. Egad. I didn't think of that.

I bet every seat on airplanes headed toward DC today are filled with recent Liberty and Regent grads.

[tiptoe]

6. Neocons opening up positions for replacements & spread of their infestation in the State Dept. nt

[underpants]

7. DING!

see post #5

:thumbsup:

[tiptoe]

10. Like a renditioning:...an evacuation of *key* State Dept employees for Neocon "insourcing"??

...again, using the fraud "war" for ulterior purposes.

Pre-War Intelligence needs to be opened.

9/11 Investigation needs to be re-opened.

[annabanana]

8. There's a difference between "fired" and "jailed"

But what it says about how much EVERYONE has had it with this disastrous occupation.