FT.com | Former US diplomats organise against Bush

"'Unique' was a word most often used among the former servants, who said that such an initiative in an election year was unknown in the six decades some of them had served.

'We are all career public servants,' explained William Harrop, former ambassador to Israel and several African countries who helped organize the initiative. 'Most of us are not comfortable about going partisan in a domestic arena. But we feel strongly that this must be stopped and the administration must be changed.'"

Simply astounding!