Rice Appeal

Well, there you go. It didn't take long:
Rice makes appeal as US diplomats resist forced duty in Iraq
7 hours ago
Jack Crotty, a member of the foreign service for 36 years, was among the most vocal, calling the forced deployment to the US embassy in Baghdad or in so-called provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq a "potential death sentence."
"You know that, in any other embassy in the world, the embassy would be closed at this point," Crotty said to applause by those present.
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