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Monday, August 8, 2016

Will There Ever Be an Investigation Into the Death of ROBIN COOK…? |

Will There Ever Be an Investigation Into the Death of ROBIN COOK…? |



His opposition to the Iraq War was one of the key themes in his widely acclaimed book, The Point of Departure,
which, among other things, discussed in diary form his efforts to
persuade his colleagues, including Tony Blair, to distance the Labour
Government from the Geo-political agendas of the Neo-Con/Bush
administration (obviously to no avail). Cook’s resignation speech in the
House of Commons (video shown above – and notice Jeremy Corbyn on Cook’s right) received a standing ovation by fellow MPs, and it was described by the BBC’s Andrew Marr as “without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant resignation speeches in modern British politics.”

According to Cook’s obituary in The Economist‍,
this had in fact been the first speech ever to receive a standing
ovation in the history of the House, and it was a substantial
embarrassment to the Blair government.

Summing up the character of the Iraq invasion, Mr Cook had said; “Ironically, it is only because
Iraq’s military forces are so weak that we can even contemplate its
invasion. Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the
commonly understood sense of the term – namely a credible device capable
of being delivered against a strategic city target. It probably still
has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had
them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and
the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories.
Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a
military capacity that has been there for 20 years and which we helped
to create?

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