Dipnote: You Pussy Diplomats, The Anbar Party Don't Never Stop
Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) having been bitching to high heaven ever since Condi & Her Power Friends ordered them to serve in Iraq. Fortunately the State Department has its savvy, Y2K-inspired Internet Weblog, Dipnote , to quell this undiplomatic sand-in-the-vagina-fest. Yesterday, an FSO currently serving in Iraq -- he volunteered, of all things! -- has a special message to his trembling colleagues in Foggy Bottom: The Marines over here think you're "weenies."
FSO John Matel, who currently serves on the Provisional Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Anbar province, penned a holier-than-thou memo to fraidy-cat diplomats in DC imploring them to come to Iraq. He notes that it's mostly soldiers who get killed in Iraq, a firm rebuke to the liberal media's depiction of Baghdad as an envoy shooting line:
I will not repeat what the Marines say when I bring up this subject. I tell them that most FSOs are not wimps and weenies. I will not share this article with them andI hope they do not see it. How could I explain this wailing and gnashing of teeth? I just tried to explain it to one of my PRT members, a reserve LtCol called up to serve in Iraq . She asked me if all FSOs would get the R&R, extra pay etc. and if it was our job to do things like this. When I answered in the affirmative, she just rolled her eyes. [emphasis ours]
Don't worry, Diplomat John. No one in the Marines can read or has ever heard of the Internet. Besides, your wimp and weenie colleagues will keep this confidential, just like they did when they had grievances about being sent to Iraq.