Rep. Hunter Urges Bush To ‘Fire Those Recalcitrant State Dept. Personnel’ Who Refuse To Go To Iraq

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/02/hunter-state-dept/

Rep. Hunter Urges Bush To ‘Fire Those Recalcitrant State Dept. Personnel’ Who Refuse To Go To Iraq

The State Department has created turmoil and consternation within the agency over its plan to resolve staff shortages in Iraq by forcing foreign service officers to accept one-year postings in Baghdad. Under the order, 200 to 300 diplomats have been identified as “prime candidates” to fill 48 vacancies that will open next year at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. If those positions aren’t filled, the department will force diplomats to serve in the war zone.

Not since the Vietnam War have diplomats been forced to serve abroad against their will. At a recent townhall meeting in the State Department, Jack Crotty, a 36-year member of the foreign service, called the forced deployment a “potential death sentence.”

Yesterday on the House floor, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) angrily attacked those diplomats who have expressed concern about serving in Iraq. Hunter said he had personally urged President Bush to fire the diplomats for speaking out:

I’ve recommended to the President today that we do this — that we fire those recalcitrant State Department personnel who say it’s too dangerous for them to go back to Baghdad. They want another assignment — let them leave the service.

Watch it at link~

Hunter said the foreign service officers should be replaced with soldiers who have been wounded in Iraq. “Let’s go down to Walter Reed hospital and Bethesda hospital, and let’s recruit,” he said.

:wow: This guy is whacked!

[Virginia Dare]

1. How about we send Duncan's family members?

fucking DIRTBAG!

[babylonsister]

2. Doesn't he, or didn't he, have a son in Iraq? But to suggest

wounded soldiers would want to or should return there boggles the mind!

[Virginia Dare]

10. His son is as big a whack job as he is...

Hunter, the son of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, was one of about 250 Californians in the Marine Corps' Individual Ready Reserve program who recently got letters informing them they were being reactivated.

"It's better to have them shooting at me there than shooting at people here," Hunter said Monday.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/10/news/top_stories/7_04_904_9_07.txt

:crazy:

[bdamomma]

4. or even better send him!!!!

[spanone]

3. as soon as he opens his mouth, i tune out.

[Blaze Diem]

5. Bush's New World Order doesn't require a State Dep. anyway.

Blackwater can branch off into a similar Foreign Relations P.R. Dept and serve Bush policies without all this resistance.

[katsy]

6. He said what?

“Let’s go down to Walter Reed hospital and Bethesda hospital, and let’s recruit,”

Makes sense in the repug-type of twisted logic... Send the wounded in and kill them off once and for all. Yeah, frees up bed space.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Is he retiring? Do you think he has been promised a job in Iraq -

like Ambassador. I know that Ambassadorships change with administration changes, but these pnacer neo-cons are talking like they are still going to be in office.

The above statement about sending our kids at Betheseda should backfire on him. Will Dems pick it up and use it?

[Swede]

8. Yeah,who needs diplomats?

Shoot first,ask questions later.

[TwilightGardener]

9. You know, I'm sure there's nothing those wounded soldiers and their

families would love more than another risky tour in Iraq. Maybe this time, they can come home in pieces, in a box--then they will know TRUE glory.

[donsu]

11. 'Mad' Duncan Hunter gets more deranged daily

he has turned into the arche angry white man

[Bitwit1234]

12. Since he wants people to serve their country in war zones

how about rove and rush. That way they can prove that their ducking out on Viet Nam service was because______________________ you fill in the blank.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Karen Hughes is free again too...n/t

[truebrit71]

14. After you Rep Hunter....Why don't YOU show us all how big and brave YOU are?

...you snivelling fucking asswipe... :grr:

Serve in Baghdad vs McDonald's? Simple answer..."Do you want fries with that?"