New Iraq policy prompts angry words at the State Department

[Poiuyt]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
New rule could force Foreign Service officers to serve in Iraq
Foreign Service veteran: Who will raise our children if we are dead or wounded?
Foreign Service's director general: We have all agreed to worldwide availability
Forced assignments have not been used since the Vietnam War era

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The sharpest comments came from Jack Croddy, a 36-year veteran of the Foreign Service.

To loud applause from his fellow workers, he asked how the State Department could protect people in Baghdad or the Iraq countryside when "incoming is coming in every day. Rockets are hitting the Green Zone."

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

more -

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/31/state.department.iraq/index.html

Sounds like Jack doesn't believe in what's going on over there, does it?

[BootinUp]

1. interesting. n/t

[screembloodymurder]

2. Do those who serve deserve more?

More respect, more money, more freedom? Should they be privileged?