Ann Wright served 29 years in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel.  She also was a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia.  She resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. She has challenged U.S. policies of regime change, 800 U.S. military bases around the world, assassin drones, and has traveled in solidarity with those who work for peace to Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Okinawa, Japan, Russia, China and most countries in Europe.