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Friday, April 02, 2004

# Posted 6:32 AM by Patrick Belton  

MATT AND I DISAGREE about a Woolsey ambassadorship in Iraq - which I still think would be a great thing - but perhaps we could agree on an anti-Robert Blackwill campaign. Blackwill is a remarkably arrogant former Kennedy School lecturer who managed to have his embassy in India taken away from him earlier in the Bush term, after he managed to alienate his entire staff in New Delhi. The State Department's inspector-general was forced to send two teams to Delhi to investigate complaints which had surfaced in the WaPo and Indian press that Blackwill "treated his staff like furniture" and morale in the embassy had "hit rock bottom." Giving him another embassy is a recipe for disaster; giving him Baghdad would be a Ba'athist's dream.
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