Source - Washington Post  A 16  march 11 2003

A US diplomat resigned yesterday in protest against President Bush's preparations to attack Iraq, the second to do so in less than a month.

John H Brown, who joined the US diplomatic corpsin 1981 and served in London,Prague,Krakow,Kiev,Belgrade and Moscow said in a letter to Secretary of State L powell that was made available to the media : " Icannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans againt Iraq. ".

" Throughout the globe the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force. The President's disregard for views in other nations ,borne out by his neglet of public diplomacy,is giving birth to an anti -American century" ,the diplomat added.

Brown has recently been attached to the Institute for the study of Dilomacy at Georgetown University . Immediately before that, he was the cultural attache at the US Embassy in Moscow.

Last month,a senior US Diplomat based in Athens ,political counsellor John Brady Kiesling, also resigned over the Bush administration's policy on Iraq.