The State
Department announced today - quietly, after presstime on a
Friday, as usual - that it will require some diplomats to
serve in Iraq due to a lack of volunteers willing to work at the United
States Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Starting on Monday, 200 to 300
diplomats will be notified that they are "prime candidates" to fill
40-50 vacancies that will open at the U.S. Embassy next year, announced
Harry Thomas, director general of the Foreign Service.
Those who are notified they are selected
for the one-year position will have ten (10) days to respond.
Unless they have a medical condition or other "compelling reasons," they
will not be able to refuse the draft without facing disciplinary action
up to dismissal.
"If someone decides that they do not want
to go, we will then consider our options," he told reporters over the
phone. "We have many options, including dismissal from the Foreign
Service."
An entire class of entry-level diplomats
was sent to serve in Vietnam. Since then, some diplomats have
been forcibly assigned to embassies in West Africa during the 1970's and
80's.
DRAFT! DRAFT! DRAFT!
Thomas also said that those who refuse duty
are failing to uphold their oath to serve the United States and the
Constitution. Oh, PLEASE! How many times has the Bush
administration violated the Constitution? They've practically
rewritten it.
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The State
Department announced today - quietly, 
