Condoleezza Rice responds to foreign service officers ' objections on Iraq duty . ` ` Directed assignments '' will be enforced if enough officers do n't volunteer in Iraq . Rice : Department doing `` everything that we can to try and protect our diplomats '' but I'm not going to put them at risk by putting them into a combat zone.
Condoleezza Rice responds to foreign service officers ' objections on Iraq duty . `` Directed assignments '' will be enforced if enough officers do n't volunteer in Iraq . Rice : Department doing `` everything that we can to try and protect our diplomats '' One official calls order to serve in Iraq `` a potential death sentence ''