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You can add my Rep Marilyn Strickland. She’s supported every war bill. A shameful coward NOT representing her constituents!

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Gaza, genocide, ecocide, apartheid, starvation. Men, women, families, teenagers, children, infants, grandparents, journalists, neighbors, doctors, nurses, dentists, teachers, college students, emergency workers, all good people plain and simple.

Thank you, Ann Wright, for undertaking the extensive, and intensive/exhaustive research needed to write such a brilliant and timely article. It reads like a cable to Washington, as it should. I truly hope you have a book in the works. As a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, I worked with many women who had similar backgrounds to those profiled in this piece. Women like those on your list were my colleagues, my superiors, and my friends. But something truly evil happened to those you have profiled.

I have been horrified, saddened, and deeply perplexed at how so many Biden appointees found themselves not only supporting the Gaza genocide, but somehow striving to make it worse and worse as the days, weeks, months, and years stretched on. I have my own little list.

1. I'm looking at you, Linda Thomas Greenfield. Shameful. She keeps gritting her teeth, boldly staring into the camera like she believed what she was saying. Tears in my eyes.

2. OMG!! Samantha Power?? Her not resigning was like stabbing a knife into my heart. FAKE!

3. Anthony Blinken's wife. For Pete's sake. Someone just punched me in my gut. Hard.

P.S. I was the PAO in Bahrain when you resigned during the Iraq War. You are the real deal, Ann, and I'm so grateful for your continued service.

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