“Service in Iraq is ‘a potential death sentence,’ said one man who identified himself as a 46-year Foreign Service veteran. ‘Any other embassy in the world would be closed by now,’ he said to sustained applause.” Want to join the Foreign Service? Here’s your chance…US diplomats appear to be on the verge of mutiny over forced postings in Baghdad. “Foreign Service officers swear an oath to serve wherever the secretary of state sends them, but no directed assignments have been ordered since the late 1960s, during the Vietnam War…A poll conducted this month by the American Foreign Service Association found that only 12 percent of officers ‘believe that [Secretary of State Condoleeza] Rice is fighting for them’.”