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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tsigprofit who wrote (19324)	3/11/2003 5:38:31 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 25898

U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq War Plans Tue Mar 11, 2:16 PM ET Add Politics to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. diplomat resigned from government service on Monday in protest of President Bush (news - web sites)'s preparations to attack Iraq (news - web sites), the second to do so in less than a month. Latest news: · U.S., Britain May Extend Iraq Deadline AP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago · Iraq Destroys More Al Samoud Missiles AP - Tue Mar 11, 1:17 PM ET · Bush Lobbies World Leaders on Iraq Vote AP - Tue Mar 11,11:31 AM ET Special Coverage 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 (news - web sites) made available to the media: "I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against Iraq. "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. 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. 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. story.news.yahoo.com