After the vote, two senior ministers resigned from Blair's cabinet: Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and, some time later, International Development Secretary Clare Short.
... Here is a summary of an article headlined `Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair over legality of the Iraq war' in The Times of London on November 30, 2009:
Goldsmith, then attorney general, sent a previously undisclosed letter [in July 2002] to Blair that a war could not be justified purely on the grounds of regime change and that an invasion on the grounds of self-defense or to prevent humanitarian disaster did not apply. Blair was reported to have concealed the advice from his cabinet, fearing it would spark an anti-war revolt.
http://www.juancole.com/2009/12/tripathi-blairs-iraq-confession.html Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Admission made in a BBC program after the invasion. What's that do for anybody?
"After the vote," so-and-so resigned. Wow. Better not kick this crowd in the groin, lest you break your foot. I'll bet they even followed it up giving an anonymous quote to the Guardian.
Cook also doesn't seem to have been Foreign Secretary in 2003. He was Leader of the House of Commons. I, of course, assume you forgot to mention that.
I take your point on Clare Short, because if there's one rule to British politics, it's that you never screw with the International Development Secretary.
Now if only the head of the EPA would stand up against TARP, we'd really be in business.
I'm sure the "previously undisclosed letter" was excellent and sternly-worded and all that bullshit, and it clearly did a lot of good.
Shit, I'll bet one of Blair's aides even read it all the way through. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Robin agreed with my assessment, but dismissed it as a consideration: "This war is wrong and I will oppose it in any case." Those who knew him well will agree that by putting his intellectual reputation on the line he risked losing something far dearer to him than his ministerial limousine. That was the true measure of his courage."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/aug/09/labour.uk1
In an attack on Hazel Blears, George Monbiot says:
"You are temporarily protected by the fact that the United Kingdom, unlike other states, has not yet incorporated the Nuremberg Principles into national law. If a future government does so, you and all those who remained in the cabinet on March 20th 2003 will be at risk of prosecution for what the Nuremberg Tribunal called "the supreme international crime"(9). This is defined as the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression"(10). Robin Cook - a man of genuine political courage - put his conscience ahead of his career and resigned. What did you do?"
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/02/10/you-stand-for-nothing-but-election/ Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
You can continue this little irrelevant-quote-fueled shitfit, but all you've done is restated your silly argument repeatedly. The above amounts to nothing more than "Robin is the bestest-best-times-infinity." You've got bits of what he was saying to the Guardian, from an article in 2005. Yes, he's clearly a great guy behind closed doors. Well, La. Di. Da. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Do you really think that burying anyone's opinion under a welter of self-congratulatory quotes of questionable relevance actually helps your argument ? So you do research ? Great. Does it tell you anything useful ? Think on Ted. Think on. keep to the Fen Causeway
