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   From: #1@Bushy.net   
      
   State Dept. Official Resigns Over War   
      
   Matthew Hoh, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war and the senior U.S.   
   civilian in the Afghan province of Zabul, resigned from his post last month   
   in protest over the war-the first official to do so. In a four-page letter,   
   the well-respected Foreign Service officer wrote that despite "reservations   
   about our current strategy and planned future strategy," the resignation was   
   based "not on how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end." Before   
   joining the Foreign Service in late 2008, Hoh had served a tour in Iraq as a   
   Marine, and returned to the country as a civilian contractor, coming home in   
   2007 with PTSD. In Afghanistan, he was assigned early on to research the   
   Korengal Valley, where several Americans had been killed; Hoh came to the   
   conclusion that the U.S. military presence in the area had actually   
   strengthened the insurgency, and that the natives did not want the American   
   soldiers. Hoh's September resignation has had repercussions throughout the   
   U.S. government: both the U.S. ambassador and Richard Holbrooke offered the   
   veteran a job (he turned down both), and Biden's foreign policy advisor is   
   scheduled to meet with him this week. Hoh says "you have to draw the line   
   somewhere, and say this is their problem to solve."   
      
   Read it at The Washington Post   
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/   
   R2009102603394_pf.html   
      
   Good name for Bush's General, General Ho. Ho for Bush's Wall Street   
   frat-thugs.   
      
   General Hoh, "I'm going to take my toys and go home".   
      
   WELL, GO!  Asshole.   
      
   8 years to kick al-qaeda out of Afganistan?   
   Sounds like Rush whining that the Wall Street 'entitled' frat-thugs will   
   simply go somewhere else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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