- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A
U.S. diplomat resigned from government service on Monday in protest at
President George W. Bush's preparations to attack Iraq, the second to do
so in less than a month.
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- John H. Brown, who joined the U.S. diplomatic corps in
1981 and served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow, said
in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell made available to the media:
"I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against
Iraq.
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- "Throughout the globe the United States is becoming
associated with the unjustified use of force. The president's disregard
for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy,
is giving birth to an anti-American century," the diplomat added.
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- Brown has recently been attached to the Institute for
the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University in Washington. Immediately
before that, he was cultural attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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- A senior U.S. diplomat based in Athens, political counselor
John Brady Kiesling, 45, resigned in protest at the Bush administration's
policy on Iraq last month.
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- http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/11/1047144951200.html
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