Comments on: RIP Robin Cook http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/ In search of a European identity Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nosemonkey http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2780 Nosemonkey Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:43:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2780 No spam thanks, anonymous. But if you want to advertise, I'm sure we could come to some arrangement. No spam thanks, anonymous. But if you want to advertise, I'm sure we could come to some arrangement.

]]> By: Alex Wilken http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2779 Alex Wilken Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:23:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2779 Robin Cook was probably the most intelligent man I ever had the privilege to have a conversation with. I wish I had been more sober so I could have appreciated it more, and learned more from it. Robin Cook was probably the most intelligent man I ever had the privilege to have a conversation with. I wish I had been more sober so I could have appreciated it more, and learned more from it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 Anonymous Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:20:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2778 This post has been removed by a blog administrator. This post has been removed by a blog administrator.

]]> By: Angry Englishman http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2777 Angry Englishman Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2777 One shouldn�t blame British Muslims for what has happened in London since 7 July Robin Cook knew that all that talk about the �Muhammedan fifth column� or the �bearded enemy within� was simply zionist bullshit on a massive scale One shouldn�t blame British Muslims for what has happened in London since 7 July

Robin Cook knew that all that talk about the �Muhammedan fifth column� or the �bearded enemy within� was simply zionist bullshit on a massive scale

]]> By: S Walsh http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 S Walsh Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2776 You�re right MT Re: your second point, you might have added just like Bush and Cheney did right after 911 with their neo-fascist Israeli-inspired "Patriot" Act You�re right MT
Re: your second point, you might have added just like Bush and Cheney did right after 911 with their neo-fascist Israeli-inspired "Patriot" Act

]]> By: Devil's Kitchen http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2775 Devil's Kitchen Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2775 Oh, and how can we forget the joy of his "ethical foreign policy"? Oh, and how can we forget the joy of his "ethical foreign policy"?

]]> By: Devil's Kitchen http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 Devil's Kitchen Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:47:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2774 Robin Cook is absolutely no loss to the world. His resignation over the Iraq war was stuff-all to do with principles. If he was so outraged about the illegality of the Iraq war, then why did he not resign over the equally illegal bombing of Serbia? Our involvement in the Balkan war was just as aggressive and illegal as that in Iraq. Robin Cook is absolutely no loss to the world.

His resignation over the Iraq war was stuff-all to do with principles. If he was so outraged about the illegality of the Iraq war, then why did he not resign over the equally illegal bombing of Serbia? Our involvement in the Balkan war was just as aggressive and illegal as that in Iraq.

]]> By: MT Wilkins http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 MT Wilkins Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:52:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2773 I think Dr Vick has a point. In many ways, Blair fits the (neo or otherwise) classical definition of fascism: 1) he forged fake intelligence (remember his "dossier" describing Saddam�s sci-fi army of deadly drones?) just like Count Ciano before Italian troops invaded Ethiopia (the Duce�s diplomats had produced a dossier "proving" Haile Selasieh�s "imminent" plans for war in Somalia) 2) he is now cynically trying to exploit a traumatised public�s "changed mood" following "crimes comitted by Muslims" to pass liberticide laws- just like Hitler did after "leftwing activists" burned the German Parliament, just like Franco did after "subversive" Asturian workers went on strike in 1936 I think Dr Vick has a point.

In many ways, Blair fits the (neo or otherwise) classical definition of fascism:
1) he forged fake intelligence (remember his "dossier" describing Saddam�s sci-fi army of deadly drones?) just like Count Ciano before Italian troops invaded Ethiopia (the Duce�s diplomats had produced a dossier "proving" Haile Selasieh�s "imminent" plans for war in Somalia)

2) he is now cynically trying to exploit a traumatised public�s "changed mood" following "crimes comitted by Muslims" to pass liberticide laws- just like Hitler did after "leftwing activists" burned the German Parliament, just like Franco did after "subversive" Asturian workers went on strike in 1936

]]> By: Dr Victorino de la V http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 Dr Victorino de la V Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:34:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2772 Robin was above all politically courageous and intellectually honest: he was one of the first politicians to see "neo-conservatism" for what it is: a deadly mix of Trotskyite Marxism, Likudnik Jewish nationalism and extreme monetarist free market economic theory. Robin Cook brilliantly ridiculed Dick Cheney and Ariel Sharon�s plans to "privatise" global security and diplomacy... Following the tragic events of July 7, some of Tony Blair�s senior political advisers have suggested we hire Israeli "security experts" and other Pharisaic mercenaries- they�re far more efficient than Scotland Yard�s bureaucrats and know real well how to massacre Muslim civilians and bulldoze ancient mosques and churches. And they have impecable credentials with a 57 years track record in the towns of Palestine and south Lebanon- not to mention they�ve successfully exported their macabre knowhow to Iraq�s "Sunni triangle" If Tony Blair succeeds in implementing his neocon/neo-Hitlerite amendments to the Human Rights Acts, we might eventually be able to import Hebrew expertise to combat "urban Muhammedan insurgency" in the streets of Brixton and Bradford. What a beautiful world this will be Robin was above all politically courageous and intellectually honest: he was one of the first politicians to see "neo-conservatism" for what it is: a deadly mix of Trotskyite Marxism, Likudnik Jewish nationalism and extreme monetarist free market economic theory.

Robin Cook brilliantly ridiculed Dick Cheney and Ariel Sharon�s plans to "privatise" global security and diplomacy…

Following the tragic events of July 7, some of Tony Blair�s senior political advisers have suggested we hire Israeli "security experts" and other Pharisaic mercenaries- they�re far more efficient than Scotland Yard�s bureaucrats and know real well how to massacre Muslim civilians and bulldoze ancient mosques and churches. And they have impecable credentials with a 57 years track record in the towns of Palestine and south Lebanon- not to mention they�ve successfully exported their macabre knowhow to Iraq�s "Sunni triangle"

If Tony Blair succeeds in implementing his neocon/neo-Hitlerite amendments to the Human Rights Acts, we might eventually be able to import Hebrew expertise to combat "urban Muhammedan insurgency" in the streets of Brixton and Bradford.
What a beautiful world this will be

]]> By: sean http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/rip-robin-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-2771 sean Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:05:00 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2005/08/07/rip-robin-cook/#comment-2771 Yeah, even though he was obviously arrogant, intellectually vain, and sometimes pompous.... I kinda liked him. Dunno why. Perhaps because I used him for a joke in my memoirs, when I said that all vaginas bear a certain resemblance to Robin Cook. Er, I hope that's not distasteful. Anyway. He was a dude, after a fashion. And principled too... RIP. Yeah, even though he was obviously arrogant, intellectually vain, and sometimes pompous…. I kinda liked him. Dunno why. Perhaps because I used him for a joke in my memoirs, when I said that all vaginas bear a certain resemblance to Robin Cook.
Er, I hope that's not distasteful.
Anyway. He was a dude, after a fashion. And principled too…
RIP.

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