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Thursday, Mar 13, 2003

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Two U.S. envoys resign

Washington March 12. In the first signs of brewing discontent in the Bush administration over its Iraq policy, two top United States diplomats have so far resigned saying they cannot support the President's war plans.

John Brady Kiesling, Political Consular at the U.S. embassy in Athens, resigned last month protesting the administration's Iraq policy.

Joining him, a veteran U.S. diplomat, John Brown, sent in his papers saying he could not support Washington's Iraq policy as it was fomenting a massive rise in anti-U.S. sentiment around the world.

Mr. Brown, who joined the State Department in 1981, said in his resignation letter to the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, that he agreed with Mr. Kiesling's viewpoint. ``Throughout the globe, the U.S. is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force,'' he said in the letter.

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