US diplomats launch Bush attack

The BBC ^ | 4 May 2004 | Staff

[John Jorsett]

I think this article needs more keywords added.

[AFPhys]

... Israel's Berlin-Wall-like barrier ...

There is so much we could critique about this letter and "typical-bureaucrat" move that all day could be spent dissecting it. I'll confine myself to a single comment about the above quote...

For these maroons to compare any wall that might be built by Israel in an attempt to keep from being murdered, to the Berlin Wall, which was designed to keep people from fleeing into freedom, demonstrates just how far away they are from a view of reality that corresponds to the world.

[Cultural Jihad]

BUSH TO MORONS : YOU ALL ARE FIRED !!

These are retired diplomats, which I believe really means they are the major campaign contributors to past Democratic administrations who had bought themselves cushy posts.

[AFPhys]

thanks for supplying background on AET.

[AFPhys]

these "former diplomats" are about as useful to public discourse as most "Nobel Prize winner"s.

[fdsa2]

Hey it was not me, originally I inserted Iraq, then somehow it just exploded...

But there are some really interesting info in this thread.

[AFPhys]

These are the architects of the world of 9/11.

PRECISELY!

This is exactly the one liner to respond to this type of criticism of President Bush and his foreign policy efforts.

[txrangerette]

A William Rogers was Nixon's first
Sec of St prior to Kissinger. He
was a Nixon friend from CA. I do
remember THAT William Rogers.

Could it be the same man? If so,
he'd be way up in years. But I
doubt it, if he was an undersec
during Carter. Wouldn't add up.

Anybody else remember Nixon's
William Rogers???

[txrangerette]

Hire them back, THEN FIRE THEM!

:o)

[philosofy123]

Cheese and wine! Rush calls them art and croisent crowd!

[holden]

Oh, yes, he does. If you've ever seen him primping himself before he goes on camera, you know (just as they teach all the schoolkids these days): he believes in himself!

HF

[ought-six]

"Does anyone have any information on these AET group?"

They champion the leftist agenda.

[CaptRon]

So, the same people who created the cesspool that is the Middle East and kept it that way are upset with the President. Seems to me he should be the one upset for having to clean up their mess.

[calcowgirl]

Nixon's William Rogers was a carryover...
he had been Eisenhower's Atty General.

[calcowgirl]

If this is correct, that William Rogers died in 2001. The following from Bartleby.com

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

Rogers, William Pierce

1913–2001, U.S. government official, b. Norfolk, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1937, he served (1947–50) as chief counsel to two Senate investigating committees before becoming (1953) deputy attorney general under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He lobbied vigorously for passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act and later, as attorney general (1957–61), set up the civil-rights division of the Justice Department. As secretary of state (1969–73) under President Richard M. Nixon, Rogers argued for restraint in the use of U.S. military power. In 1970 he arranged a cease-fire in the Middle East between Israel and Egypt. He returned to public service one last time in 1986 when he headed the special presidential commission set up to investigate the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

[fdsa2]

Link to letter:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3681999.stm

Andrew I Killgore, Ambassador to Qatar, 1977-1980
Richard H Curtiss, former chief inspector, US Information Agency
Colbert C Held, Retired FSO and author
Thomas J Carolan, Counsel General Istanbul, '88-'92
C Edward Bernier, Counselor of Embassy, Information and Culture, Islamabad, Pakistan
Donald A Kruse, American Consul in Jerusalem
Ambassador Edward L Peck, former Chief of Mission in Iraq and Mauritania
John Powell, Admin Counselor in Beirut, '75-'76
John Gunther Dean, last position held US Ambassador to India
Greg Thielmann, Director, Office for Strategic Proliferation and Military Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research
James Akins, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Talcott Seeyle, Ambassador to Syria
Eugene Bird, Counselor of Embassy in Saudi Arabia
Richard H Nolte, Ambassador to Egypt
Ray Close, Chief of Station Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 1971-1979
Shirl McArthur, Commercial Attache, Bangkok

Only 16 names here who are the other 34?

[txrangerette]

Nixon made him his Sec. of State,
& everyone said they were friends.
The Nixon Admin. wasn't elected
until '68 - two terms after the
Eisenhower years. Kennedy & LBJ
came in-between.

Your key info is that Rogers is
deceased. So, the William Rogers
in this article is not Nixon's
guy, but a Jimmy Carter type who
happens to carry the same name.

I am very glad to know this!

[philosofy123]

Al-Arian, and his fanatic family should have been stripped from the US citizenship, and deported to some Arab country, where they can be considered heros.

We have this guy Demianjuk (spel?) who has been in the US as a citizen for fifty years, and has never done anything against the US, and has been proven to be falsely accused (at least that is the allegations by his defenders); yet our government is willing to stip him from his citizenchip, and deport him to Poland? The alegation against Demianjukwas is essentially that he lied on his citizenship application fifty years ago! Perhaps he stated his eyes color were brown istead of green! His case is not a treason against the US as these low life Moslem murderers.

[Alamo-Girl]

Hmmm ... Thanks for the ping!