[Peace-discuss] CNN.com - U.S. diplomat resigns over Iraq war plans - Mar. 10, 2003

[Margaret E. Kosal]

before it disappears from CNN ... mek


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/10/sprj.irq.diplomat.resignation.reut/index.html


U.S. diplomat resigns over Iraq war plans
Monday, March 10, 2003 Posted: 7:09 PM EST (0009 GMT)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A U.S. diplomat resigned from government service 
Monday in protest at President Bush's preparations to attack Iraq, the 
second to do so in less than a month.
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.
"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.