Rice Reaffirms Plan To Force Diplomats To Fill Iraq Posts

"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers, but it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment," said Jack Croddy, a senior foreign service officer. "I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence and you know it. ... Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?"

Three Foreign Service officers have been killed since the war started.