{"id":262,"date":"2003-03-19T07:23:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/262.html"},"modified":"2003-03-19T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T12:23:42","slug":"robin-cooks-classic-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/robin-cooks-classic-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Cook’s classic resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to an alert reader, let’s call him MW, for letting me know about the text of Robin Cook’s brilliant speech to the British Parliament yesterday. In it, Cook explains why he cannot, in good conscience, serve in Tony Blair’s government as it stands with the U.S. on war with Iraq.<\/p>\n

I know most of my posts go on and on, and but not this time. This speech is about as good as it gets. Cook got a standing ovation from his colleagues, and if you’ve ever watched sessions of Parliament on C-SPAN, you know that is an exceedingly rare occurrence.<\/p>\n

Go read the speech<\/a>. Right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to an alert reader, let’s call him MW, for letting me know about the text of Robin Cook’s brilliant speech to the British Parliament yesterday. In it, Cook explains why he cannot, in good conscience, serve in Tony Blair’s government as it stands with the U.S. on war with Iraq. I know most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}