Who is Edward Peck?

[ProSense]

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"What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are," said Edward Peck, a former top U.S. diplomat in Iraq.

"What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it's blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?"

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AMBASSADOR EDWARD PECK

Ambassador Peck served as an American diplomat for 32 years and speaks four languages: Swedish, Arabic, French and Spanish. He was the chief of mission in Iraq from 1977 to 1980. He was an also an Embassy officer in Sweden, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt and a Chief of Mission in Mauritania.

His domestic assignments included Deputy Director of the Cabinet Task Force on Terrorism at the White House, Deputy Coordinator for Covert Intelligence Programs and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the State Department, Liaison Officer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Fellow at the Institute for Higher Defense Studies at the Pentagon.

Ambassador Peck retired to become Executive Secretary of the American Academy of Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., and was later named Chairman of Political Tradecraft programs at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Northern Virginia. He is a member of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, a Distinguished Visitor at the National War College, and a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow. The ambassador also serves on the Board of Directors of Americans for Middle East Understanding.

A former paratrooper in the U.S. Army, Ambassador Peck rose from private to Captain. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from UCLA, and an M.B.A from George Washington University.

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I expected to find Peck in exile, especially after the treatment Rev. Wright got because the media attributed Peck's words to him.

[FARAFIELD]

1. He Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers, right?

hmmm?

[bilgewaterbill]

2. He picked a peck of pilfered papers.

[ProSense]

3. No comments? n/t

[RichardRay]

4. Crickets?

For those of you who don't know who he is, google the source of some of Rev. Wright's famous 'incendiary statements'. Who says it's the same when a black man says the same thing as a white man?

[mikelewis]

5. You need a catchier title like... Come see Obama's Peck... er...Hot!!!! Pics!!!!

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