WASHINGTON -- A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war, the Washington Post reported early Tuesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/27/official-resigns-protest-afghan-war/

I'm somewhat amazed because I actually met this guy when he was a Captain in Haditha. He was in a CH-46 that crashed in the lake next to Haditha Dam and managed to swim ashore still wearing his (roughly 30 lb) body armor.

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