Thursday, June 17, 2004

Diplomats for Change

In my experience, I can't remember ever hearing about anything like this happening during a Presidential election, a bi-partisan coalition of 27 former diplomats and military officers, so worried by the policies of a standing President that they band together to help ensure that he is not re-elected:

An unprecedented bipartisan coalition of 27 career chiefs of mission and retired four-star military leaders will launch a nationwide campaign to press for the need for change in U.S. foreign and defense policy because they are deeply concerned by the damage the Bush Administration has caused to our national and international interests.


The Bush-Cheney camp is attempting to cast this in a partisan light of course, despite the presence of a number of life-long Republicans among the coalition, along with such prominent retired officers as General Joseph Hoar, commander of US forces in the Middle East during the administration of Bush's father. What no one has yet asked however is: where are the coalition of diplomats and military officers in support of another four years of the Bush administration? Where is even one?

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