CNN: “New Iraq policy prompts angry words at the State Department”
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.”
Man, I wish they would force everybody who works for the federal government to take hardship assignments in Iraq.
Ben: sounds like a good idea, until you realize they all earn a big bonus for eing there. Think what it will do to the deficit!