Diplomats Honored For Dissent

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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 lead if the American lead would be less effective than a U.N. Special Representative," Mines wrote. "At some point, it would seem that the reasons for going it alone in Iraq would be overshadowed by the need to create a viable Iraqi state."

For his willingness to challenge the Bush administration's conventional wisdom, Mines collected an award for "constructive dissent" from the State Department's professional association last week. The citation called his ideas "prescient" and noted that "some have, belatedly, been adopted."

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This has to be another sign that there is an internal 'revolution' growing against * and the NeoCons who handle him.

All of the leaked torture memoes and other very damaging information coming out in droves is very good indeed. Hopefully, it will continue to change the minds of the sheeple.

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1. link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10462-2004Jun27.html

Most international issues are "too important to allow ideology to trump experience or imagination to trump reality."

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2. Ooops. Thanks a lot. In a hurry this morning before work... <nt>

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3. Thank you! Great article!

:)