Originally Posted By: whomod
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Rice tells US diplomats Iraq jobs 'must be filled'
Fri Nov 2, 2007 12:13pm EDT

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday told all U.S. diplomats that posts in Iraq must be filled after some voiced unhappiness about the possibility of being forced to serve in the war zone.

One diplomat told a State Department town hall this week that serving in Iraq was a "potential death sentence." Another said the department failed to treat her for post-traumatic stress disorder when she returned from a stint in Basra.

Some U.S. diplomats are incensed following a State Department decision last week to identify "prime candidates" who may have to accept compulsory one-year tours in Iraq or risk losing their jobs. If volunteers step forward, however, mandatory assignments will not be necessary.

"Regardless of how the jobs may be filled, they must be filled," Rice said in a cable sent to all the roughly 11,500 U.S. diplomats around the world. "It is our duty to do our part toward succeeding in the vital mission in Iraq given to us by the president."

More than 200 diplomats have been told they are in a pool of people who may be forced to go to Iraq to fill 48 positions for which no qualified candidates had volunteered. Since news of this was released, 15 people have volunteered and are being vetted, the State Department said on Thursday.


US Diplomats balk at going to Iraq. It turns ugly:”Who will raise our children if we’re dead or seriously wounded?”.

Foreign service officers were screaming at the Director General’s Town Hall meeting on Iraq staffing because they are being forced to serve in Iraq. Jack Crody was especially honest calling it a “death sentence” if they are forced to go. The State Dept. didn’t even have the guts to tell them face to face. They read about it in the Washington Post.

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Crody: Who will take care of our children? Who will raise our children if we’re dead or seriously wounded?

I absolutely have no respect for the whole process because you’ve demonstrated a lack of respect for your own colleagues.

Thomas: Thank you for that comment. It’s full of inaccuracies, but…that’s OK.—Don’t you or anybody else tell me the people in HR do not care about foreign service officers. I find that insulting.

Q: You may care, but you don’t articulate it. You roll your eyes, but we have polled the foreign service. 12% of your foreign service believes that Secretary Condi Rice is fighting for them. 12%.

Thomas: That’s their right, they’re wrong.

Q: Sometimes if it’s 88-12. Maybe the 88 % are correct.

Thomas: 88% of this country believed in slavery at one time, were they correct? (grumbling) So don’t come here with that.


OMG, Harry Thomas used slavery to tell them to go f*&k themselves!





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