Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired
United States Army
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colonel
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and retired U.S.
State Department
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official, known for her outspoken opposition to the
Iraq War
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, partof = the Iraq conflict (2003–present), I ...
. She received the State Department
Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the
civil war
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
in
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...
.
She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the
2003 Invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
.
Wright was also a passenger on the ''Challenger 1'', which along with the ''
Mavi Marmara
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'', was part of the
Gaza Freedom Flotilla
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla, organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), was carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials, with the intention of breaking ...
.
Early life
Wright grew up in
Bentonville,
Arkansas
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, in what she referred to as "just a normal childhood". She attended the
University of Arkansas
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where she was recruited in the U.S. Army.
Wright earned a master's and
J.D. degrees, while she worked for the
U.S. Army
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.
Her J.D.degree comes from the University of Arkansas and her master's degree in national security affairs is from the U.S. Naval War College.
U.S. Army
Wright earned a master's degree in National Security Affairs from the
U.S. Naval War College
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in
Newport, Rhode Island
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and later participated in reconstruction efforts after
U.S. military
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actions in
Grenada
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and
Somalia
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.
Wright went on to serve 13 years in active duty in the U.S. Army, and 16 years in the
Army Reserves
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, rising to the rank of colonel. She was placed in the
Retired Ready Reserve, meaning the
President
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could call her back to active duty in a time of need.
U.S. State Department
In 1987, Wright went to work for the
Foreign Service
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within the U.S. State Department. Over the course of her State Department career, Wright served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassies in
Afghanistan
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(which she helped open following the 2001
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
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, an assignment she volunteered for),
Sierra Leone
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(an embassy which she helped close and then reopen again),
Micronesia
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and
Mongolia
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, and also served at U.S. embassies in
Uzbekistan
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(which she helped open),
Kyrgyzstan
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, Grenada, and
Nicaragua
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.
Wright's eventual resignation was not the first time she had spoken out against policy. In an interview, Wright said that she spoke out against
United Nations
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bombing tactics waged in Somalia in the effort to kill rebel leader
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Mohamed Farrah Hassan Aidid ( so, Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid; ar, محمد فرح حسن عيديد; 15 December 1934 – 1 August 1996) was a Somali general and diplomat.
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. Wright also said that she repeatedly disagreed with policy on multiple occasions but continued her work at the State Department.
Resignation
Wright submitted her resignation letter to then U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
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on March 19, 2003, the day before the onset of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Her letter was published on the internet the following day.
In her resignation letter, Wright listed four reasons she could no longer work for the U.S. government under the
Bush
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administration:
* The decision to invade Iraq without the blessing of the
U.N.
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Security Council
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* The "lack of effort" in the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Israelis ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵלִים, translit=Yīśrāʾēlīm; ar, الإسرائيليين, translit=al-ʾIsrāʾīliyyin) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jew ...
* The "lack of policy" in regard to
North Korea
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* The curtailment of civil liberties within the United States.
Wright was the third of three State Department officials to retire from service in protest in the month prior to the invasion of Iraq, the other two being
Brady Kiesling
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Diplomat
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and
John H. Brown. Wright says that she did not know the other two, and had not read their resignation letters at the time she submitted her own.
Peace activism
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Since her retirement from the State Department, Wright has become a prominent figure in the
movement opposed to the occupation of Iraq. She has attended many conferences and given numerous lectures on her political views and on her experiences before and after her resignation.
Wright has worked with anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan on several occasions, most notably by helping organize the
Camp Casey demonstration outside George W. Bush's
Crawford, Texas
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Crawford is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 887.
The town was incorporated on August 12, 1897. ...
, ranch in August 2005, and by accompanying the southern leg of the
Bring Them Home Now bus tour. She also volunteered at Camp Casey 3, started by
Desert storm
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Veteran Dennis Kyne and
Veterans for Peace
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days after
Hurricane Katrina
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She marched with Sheehan in 2006 with the Women Say No to War campaign, which was meant to deliver a petition with over 60,000 signatures of citizens against the war.
Wright has willingly been arrested while taking part in anti-war demonstrations, the first such arrest occurring in front of the
White House
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on September 26, 2005. She has said in interviews that she does not remove the arrest bracelets attached to her wrists upon the processing of her arrest, but rather collects them.
On October 19, 2005, Wright interrupted a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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hearing, shouting at
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
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, "Stop the war! Stop the killing!" Wright was uneventfully escorted out of the hearing room.
Wright served as one of five judges at the January 2006 sessions of the International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration. She was also one of three recipients of the first annual Truthout Freedom and Democracy Awards.
Wright was one of three witnesses called to testify at an
Article 32
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hearing on behalf of U.S. Army Lt.
Ehren Watada
Ehren Keoni Watada (born 1978) is a former first lieutenant of the United States Army, best known as the first commissioned officer in the US armed forces to refuse to deploy to Iraq. , who on June 22, 2006 refused to deploy to Iraq with his unit, asserting that the war violates both the
United States Constitution
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and
international law
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.
On April 1, 2007 Wright was cited, along with 38 other
anti-nuclear
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activists, for trespassing at the
Nevada Test Site
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during a
Nevada Desert Experience
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event protesting against the continued development of
nuclear weapons
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by the United States.
That evening Wright appeared on
The O'Reilly Factor
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to discuss the
Geneva Conventions
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and how they applied to Iran in its taking of 15 British hostages. The discussion grew heated, and Wright stated that she had served 29 years in the military. During the course of the exchange, O'Reilly questioned Wright's patriotism and when she pointed out she had served 29 years in the military and O'Reilly had never served at all her microphone was cut off.
On April 17, 2007, Wright attended a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. She was ejected from the hearing room after speaking out of turn in response to comments made by Republican Congressmember
Dana Rohrabacher
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (; born June 21, 1947) is a former American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019. A Republican, he represented for the last three terms of his House tenure.
Rohrabacher ran for r ...
. On September 11, 2007, Wright was arrested, and later convicted, for disrupting a
Senate Armed Services Committee
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hearing at which
general
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...
David Petraeus
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and
Ambassador
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to Iraq
Ryan Crocker were testifying.
Wright took part in a September 15, 2007 protest march and
die-in
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on the steps of the
United States Capitol Building
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, organized by the
ANSWER Coalition and
Iraq Veterans Against the War
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(IVAW). She was arrested for stepping over the wall after several IVAW and
Veterans for Peace
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members were arrested.
On October 3, 2007, Wright and
Code Pink
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activist
Medea Benjamin
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FBI
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database, called the
National Crime Information Center
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, due to arrests related to their anti-war activism.
Wright and Benjamin were told that if they wish to enter Canada in the future, they will have to apply for resident's permits.
In regards to the incident, a Canadian MP,
Olivia Chow
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, was "alarmed to learn that Canadian border police are enforcinig rules that have been determined by the FBI and other U.S.-based agencies."
In December 2008, Wright has recently expressed her dissatisfaction with the current U.S foreign policy toward Palestine.
In 2009 Wright began work as a leading member of the steering committee for the
Gaza Freedom March
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.
In August 2014 she was among the signatories of an open letter to German Chancellor
Angela Merkel
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by the group
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in which they urged the Chancellor to be suspicious of U.S. intelligence regarding the alleged invasion of Russia in Eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, Wright was awarded the
US Peace Prize
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by the US Peace Memorial Foundation “for courageous antiwar activism, inspirational peace leadership, and selfless citizen diplomacy.”
Gaza flotilla
On June 3, 2010 Wright was interviewed by Democracy Now! She was on the Challenger 1, and observed the Israeli soldiers rappeling down from helicopters onto the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Her own ship was boarded. "Flash bangs were used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an electric shock. I don’t know that it was a taser."
Wright was one of five activists who offered themselves up for arrest in Rep. Brad Sherman's office after he made a public statement that any American who provides humanitarian aid to Gaza should be prosecuted under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. No arrests were made.
September 11th attacks and the 9/11 Commission report
In a 2007 interview on the
Air America Radio
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network, Wright described the
9/11 Commission report
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on the
September 11 terrorist attacks
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as "totally inadequate", adding that she does not understand why the US national intelligence and defense operations completely failed and how the Pentagon could be hit on 9/11.
Earlier, in 2004, she had signed a Letter to Congress, criticizing the Commission report for serious shortcomings and omissions, which according to the signatories renders the report flawed and casts doubt on the validity of its recommendations.
Writings
In 2008,
Koa Books published ''Dissent: Voices of Conscience,'' co-authored by Ann Wright and Susan Dixon. Subtitled ''Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq'', the work includes a foreword by longtime anti-war activist
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the ''Pent ...
, who leaked the top-secret
Pentagon Papers
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in 1971.
Quotes
* “Refusing to participate in military operations that violate international law -- the war of aggression, the use of torture, the use of illegal weapons and purposeful targeting of innocent civilians will save Lt. Watada his sanity and his soul.”
Payday
See also
* Ehren Watada
Ehren Keoni Watada (born 1978) is a former first lieutenant of the United States Army, best known as the first commissioned officer in the US armed forces to refuse to deploy to Iraq. – former US Army Officer who opposed the Iraq War
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, conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق (Kurdish languages, Kurdish)
, partof = the Iraq conflict (2003–present), I ...
* List of peace activists
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References
External links
Ann Wright's letter of resignation
Ann Wright at usmvaw.com
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1947 births
Living people
21st-century American women writers
American anti–Iraq War activists
American anti–nuclear weapons activists
American diplomats
American political writers
Naval War College alumni
People from Bentonville, Arkansas
United States Army colonels
University of Arkansas alumni
Women in 21st-century warfare
Female United States Army officers
American women diplomats
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers