Secretary of State Clinton: Now That the Wedding Is Over, Could You Respond to Requests From America

[kas125]

by Ann Wright:

Dear Secretary of State Clinton,

I am a retired US Army Reserve Colonel with 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserves and a former US diplomat who resigned after 16 years in the US State Department in opposition to the war on Iraq.

I was one of fourteen American citizens on the Gaza flotilla.

On June 14, 2010 I delivered to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of American Citizen Services a letter to you requesting investigation of the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla in which one unarmed American citizen was killed by Israeli commandos and fourteen other American citizens were kidnapped from international waters and taken to Israel against their will, imprisoned and their personal possessions stolen by Israeli commandos.

Despite numerous inquiries to the State Department about the status of the response to my letter, after seven weeks I have not received a response to the letter nor to the 80 questions that I requested that the United States government pose to the Israeli government concerning their attack on the Gaza flotilla.

con't at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/05-6

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Ann Wright is someone I consider a friend and I am truly honored to share her words here.

[sandnsea]

1. Now that the wedding is over???

What, is she two?

I guess you gotta spead that diplomacy around.

In recent news, Israel is returning the ships and both countries have agreed to a UN panel.

I guess Ann Wright just isn't as important as she thinks she is. There's a lot of that going around these days.

[aquart]

2. How snide and condescending. Requests from AMERICA?

Is Ms. Wright our queen that she refers to herself as America? What spectacular self-importance. She doesn't want an investigation, she wants a medal.

[Bitwit1234]

3. I guess those people who have no daughters who can and will

soon marry are just too damn envious of those who do. Friend or not she sounds like a pill.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Or perhaps her own presence at the event calls for some

action on the part of the State Department?
Do you really think this is 'weddinng envy'? Would you say that if a man wrote the piece, or if a man was in Hillary's job?
The author was present at the flotilla raid. The author is an American citizen with every right to address her government. Even if that bothers others.