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2007-11-01 Home Front: WoT

Iraq draftees seethe, pout, whinge, threaten to move to Canada

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-11-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 "We cannot pick and choose where we go," he said

Things must have surely changed, they've used a seniority system and been "picking and choosing" for decades. KBR, BAE, SAIC, CACI, BAH, and Blackwater have few problems in finding employees willing to deploy to the ITA, and oftentimes for salaries much lower than those at US State. Could it be the caliber of employee is the problem? Their true colors have surfaced? Canvasing for 500 to fill 50 is an admission of failure. Fire the first three phuechs that say "no" on the bloody spot! Don't even let them have lunch or clean out their desks. The rest will deploy or you can fire them as well. No employer in the private sector would put up with that type of rubbish. Why should the US taxpayer?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-11-01 01:40|| 2007-11-01 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 So the employees cry about having to hear it in the news.....

Here's an idea. Stop LEAKING every-phucking-thing.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-11-01 02:40|| 2007-11-01 02:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, this is one way to begin sorting out the ... staff ... in State.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-01 07:53|| 2007-11-01 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Saudi stipends are cut off when DOS personnel are in theater.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-01 09:00|| 2007-11-01 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 This confirms everything I thought about the narcissistic striped pants draft dodgers at State and their sense of entitlement. They are the sort who sing "We are the World" and believe it.

Posted by RWV 2007-11-01 09:03|| 2007-11-01 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 When they were rebuilding the last division, the 10th, at Fort Drum, the Army found a number of senior non-coms in a particular field reluctant to move to the great white north. That branch had previously had stagnation in the upper echelons of the rank structure. So, it used the opportunity to issue orders. It went through a dozen senior Ncos before one didn't submit his retirement papers. That one lasted six months before the CG called branch and said - now send me a real one. It is a good bureaucratic tool to clear out dead wood that the system otherwise makes extremely difficult to remove.

Maybe this is Condi's 'revenge is a dish served cold'. Her parting gift to the next administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-01 09:32|| 2007-11-01 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 The employees ought to have had full notification before it went to the press.

Indeed. But probably symtomatic of the level of competence State has been showing. A house cleaning would do them (and the US!) good.

Posted by SteveS 2007-11-01 12:16|| 2007-11-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 "I'm sorry but basically, that's a potential death sentence and you know it," said Jack Crotty, who was nearing retirement after more than three decades in the foreign service, including a stint as political adviser to NATO's southern command.

Well, Jack, there are just as many dangerous - "death sentance" - places in Naples as there are in Baghdad. But then this is State Department folks who need a pin-striped environment where you are rewarded for choosing a good wine for the Secretary's in country visit and dinner.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-11-01 13:07|| 2007-11-01 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 if you don't want to play, leave. reminds me of the various Reservists that did not believe you could actually be ordered into a war zone.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-11-01 14:39|| 2007-11-01 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 You are serving your country, not workign for a f**king country club.

If you aren;t up for doint hte things to make the nation succedd, then get the hell out of government service.

Who the hell do these peopel think they are? Self entitled asshoels.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-01 14:56|| 2007-11-01 14:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think we should fire these guys.

Send them to work on road crews somewhere in the deeps South. They can earn their GS-18 paychecks standing out in the middle of 90 degree asphalt holding a goddamn SLOW sign for an eight hour shift.

Then find some about-to-be-honorably-discharged Lance Corporal somewhere and ask him if he wants to be a diplomat for six months at four pay grades higher than he currently is.

As a bonus he probably knows more about the native population to begin with, _and_ probably isn't as much of a dickweed when dealing with it, since he hasn't been told his whole damn education and life how much smarter he is than everyone else.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-01 15:28|| 2007-11-01 15:28|| Front Page Top

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