Robin Cook on Iraq and Iran

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http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2003/05/31_cook_domestic-agenda.htm
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There is always a bigger problem in denying reality than in admitting the truth. The time has come when the British government needs to concede that we did not go to war because Saddam was a threat to our national interests. We went to war for reasons of US foreign policy and Republican domestic politics.

One advantage of such clarity is that it would help prevent us from being suckered a second time. Which brings us to Rumsfeld s latest sabre-rattling against Iran. It is consistent with the one-dimensional character of the Rumsfeld world view. This time we must make clear to the White House that we are not going to subordinate Britain s interests to a US policy of confrontation. Iran must not become the next Iraq.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. didn't they kill Robin Cook off?

supposed heart attack on a mountain?

[malaise]

3. I still wonder about that

He was 59 damn it.

[Franks Wild Years]

2. A great man sorely missed.

How I wished he was Prime Minister in 2002/3.

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4. Don't we all

Also on that page three of Byrd's speeches
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2003/05/23_byrd_unprovoked.htm. That old man has more guts than the youngsters in the Senate

[invictus]

5. K & R