Robin Cook - Blair should withdraw troops now.

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Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook has created a political firestorm by calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw Britain's troops from Iraq immediately.

The call, which came in an article in the anti-war Sunday Mirror, has thrown down a challenge to Blair, who has alienated many of his own parliamentarians by his alliance with what they regard as the far-right US administration of President George W. Bush.

Earlier this month, Blair was faced with the largest rebellion by his own legislators of any prime minister in British parliamentary history.

Cook, who resigned from the cabinet in protest at British involvement in the war without a specific mandate from the UN Security Council, denounced the military campaign in Iraq as "bloody and unjust."

He also warned that Britain and America risked stoking up a "long-term legacy of hatred" for the West throughout the Arab and Muslim world.

Cook said Bush and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not appear to know what to do now that their hopes for a swift Iraqi capitulation failed to materialize.
 
Now wouldn't that be interesting?

If the Brits withdraw and this "holy war" to Dumsfeld to run by himself...



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cook is an extremist like michael " $#%&head" moore.

its amazing how the left wing media will print even the silliest of the zealots attempts to discredit two honorable and just leaders Tony Blair and George Bush.

Eat it nutballs, the US and the UK have leaders with vision, courage and moral dignity who will see this through despite the rantings and ravings of the lunatic fringe ( see grantts insane posts for instance)
 

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Hes just angling for the leadership once Tony baloney is gone.
A grassroots labour supporters type of speech.

Politics is a practical business...

The sooner we get this business done and dusted the better.

One lasting problem is that the UK population is wondering where in the hell Tony going to take us next.

I would be surprised to see him surviving long.
A short period of glory in the aftermath, then political oblivion.

A lot of the population reckon its safer for us if he goes, and that includes Labour supporters.
 

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