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To: PROLIFE who wrote (382648)	3/31/2003 10:10:06 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769667

It's just one person's opinion. After 30 years, she probably has a pretty good pension coming. We have thousands of those types of diplomats. Still waiting to see a single article on how many have stayed.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (382648)	3/31/2003 10:16:27 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

The rapid (overnight on a Sunday) firing of Peter Arnette by NBC shows that the "establishment" networks are SHOCKED and FREIGHTENED at the exposure of their anti-American slant in this war. After promoting American defeat in Vietnam, manufacturing Watergate, covering Clinton's crimes, and pointedly sidestepping the massive Democrat vote fraud of 2000, they are suddenly shocked that they CAN'T GET AWAY WITH IT anymore. The world is changing. The left's propaganda is getting far more desperate. Their defeat is at hand. At least one network will scramble to survive. We don't know which one yet-but at least one will engage in massive turnover, and the hiring of one or more prominent conservatives from radio, by the end of the year. The Democratic party is used to having the left wing broadcast media as a main campaign arm. They will have to run without that in 2004. Their defeat will be massive...

To: PROLIFE who wrote (382648)	3/31/2003 10:42:34 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Your belittling of Mary A. Wright's almost thirty years of service to our country, in the some of the most isolated and dangerous parts of the world, is ungrateful and ignorant. Deputy Chief of Mission is hardly an "assistant" job. The DCM is the person who is the acting Ambassador in the country when the Ambassador is away. It is usually a person who, while the Ambassador is engaged in more of the representation functions, does the nitty-gritty work at the Mission, and keeps the Ambassador up to speed on details. Possibly she has earned your seriously considering her reasons for resigning after a long career serving in the highest posts next under an Ambassadorship an American Foreign Service Officer can attain. She did a hard, dangerous job for our country under many administrations, and deserves respect, not ridicule. She is an American hero.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (382648)	3/31/2003 10:58:53 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

P.S. Had you read her letter, you would also have noticed the following, btw, and possibly would have been less dismissive of Wright's career and contributions to our country: "[I was] the Deputy Chief of Mission in our Embassies in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan (briefly) and Mongolia. I have also had assignments in Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada and Nicaragua. I received the State Department's Award for Heroism as Charge d'Affaires during the evacuation of Sierra Leone in 1997. I was 26 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and participated in civil reconstruction projects after military operations in Grenada, Panama and Somalia. I attained the rank of Colonel during my military service."