Question for British DUers - since they're investigating David

[malaise]

Kelly's death, is anyone looking at the death of Robin Cook? I've always found it odd that they both died during 'walks'.
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He died in August 2005, aged 59, after collapsing while hill-walking in Scotland. His stance on the Iraq war - and his resignation speech - helped ensure he is remembered as a great Parliamentarian.
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Here's the transcript of that famous resignation speech.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2859431.stm

This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches.

Only a couple of weeks ago, Hans Blix told the Security Council that the key remaining disarmament tasks could be completed within months.

I have heard it said that Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to complete disarmament, and that our patience is exhausted.

Yet it is more than 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.

We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply.

I welcome the strong personal commitment that the prime minister has given to middle east peace, but Britain's positive role in the middle east does not redress the strong sense of injustice throughout the Muslim world at what it sees as one rule for the allies of the US and another rule for the rest.

Nor is our credibility helped by the appearance that our partners in Washington are less interested in disarmament than they are in regime change in Iraq.

That explains why any evidence that inspections may be showing progress is greeted in Washington not with satisfaction but with consternation: it reduces the case for war.

Presidential differences

What has come to trouble me most over past weeks is the suspicion that if the hanging chads in Florida had gone the other way and Al Gore had been elected, we would not now be about to commit British troops.

The longer that I have served in this place, the greater the respect I have for the good sense and collective wisdom of the British people.

On Iraq, I believe that the prevailing mood of the British people is sound. They do not doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator, but they are not persuaded that he is a clear and present danger to Britain.

They want inspections to be given a chance, and they suspect that they are being pushed too quickly into conflict by a US Administration with an agenda of its own.

Above all, they are uneasy at Britain going out on a limb on a military adventure without a broader international coalition and against the hostility of many of our traditional allies.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Cook was walking with his wife at the time, during a holiday

and a heart attack in a 59 year old is not suspicious.