AP: (Robin) Cook's Anti-War Stance Now on Tombstone

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Cook's Anti-War Stance Now on Tombstone

The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 9, 2007; 10:20 AM

LONDON -- Lest anyone forget that former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook opposed the
war in Iraq, his family have emblazoned it on his tombstone.

Cook, who died Aug. 6, 2005, at age 59, was the only member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's
Cabinet to resign before the invasion because of opposition to the war.

His wife and his two sons by a previous marriage placed this epitaph on Cook's stone in the
Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh: "I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure
the right of Parliament to decide on war."

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Blair prevailed in the Commons vote on the war a day after Cook resigned. Lawmakers voted 412
to 149 to use "all means necessary" to disarm Iraq.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010900435.html

Also: Epitaph tribute to anti-war Cook - BBC