Shrub's ambassador to Iraq on MTP looks PTSD, inspires no confidence

[UTUSN]

The fellow looks goofy, speaks with hesitance and with mealy-mouthed words, withOUT any kind of confidence. Poor fellow has been stationed in all of the hellholes: Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon... He needs an R&R assignment of the kind given to Shrub-donors.


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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/06/crocker-iraq-end-game/

U.S. Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker: ‘I Don’t See An End Game In Sight’

In recent days, the White House has begun a public campaign to rally the American public around “a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea,” where U.S. troops have been stationed for 50 years. ....

http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/ambassador.html

Ryan Crocker was confirmed as Ambassador to Iraq on March 7, 2007. He assumed Chief of Mission duties at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on March 29, 2007, after serving as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan from October 2004 to March 2007. He served previously as the International Affairs Advisor at the National War College, where he joined the faculty in 2003. From May to August 2003, he was in Baghdad as the first Director of Governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2001 to May 2003, and served previously as Ambassador to Syria (1998-2001), Ambassador to Kuwait (1994-1997) and Ambassador to Lebanon (1990-1993). Since joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he also has had assignments in Iran, Qatar, Iraq and Egypt, as well as Washington. He was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the bombings of the embassy and the Marine barracks in 1983.

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[Richardo]

1. Ladies and Gentlemen, your next Medal of Freedom recipient

:applause:

[bahrbearian]

2. Did he take his speech classes from the Chimp,,, a ,,a ,,,,a ,,a

[Xipe Totec]

3. Next assignment: Planet Blorch, home of the Slaughtering Rat People

[EST]

4. Before we tear him apart on his looks and deportment, always such

valuable and penetrating estimates of a person's character and ability, let's look at what he actually said and did.

What it looked like to one who is not well schooled in ambassadorial "code" words was that he did a fan dance while saying nothing of substance and conveying his unquestioning support of administration policy.

Does that seem to be a fair reading, or did I interpret too freely?

[UTUSN]

5. We each live by our own words ..."to one who is not well schooled..." n/t