Just uncovered the resignation speech of Robin Cook (RIP), leader of the UK House of Commons, during the leadup to the war in Iraq. Worth watching.
Part One
Part Two (Brilliant)
Part One
Part Two (Brilliant)
Ah fuck.
I wish he was our president.
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I wish a truth speaking man of dignity would occupy the Whitehouse.
I wish he was our president.
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I wish a truth speaking man of dignity would occupy the Whitehouse.
Last edited by ATG (2007-03-21 18:18:44)
Damnit, I don't have sound here at work. Not that I speak Englandish anyway.
Well lemme just say, that as an American I feel absolutely betrayed by our leaders.Major_Spittle wrote:
Damnit, I don't have sound here at work. Not that I speak Englandish anyway.
We've be lied to and sold-out.
Where have you been?ATG wrote:
Well lemme just say, that as an American I feel absolutely betrayed by our leaders.Major_Spittle wrote:
Damnit, I don't have sound here at work. Not that I speak Englandish anyway.
We've be lied to and sold-out.
Great Speech.
Wow great speech, can't say I remember seeing it on the news at the time, but I'm guessing it disappeared under all the other stuff that was happening. (do remember reading about him resigning).
Robin Cook a man of respect and honer, not once blaming Tony Blair or taking cheap shots at the government, while getting his very valid point across.
He is sadly missed as the voice of reason in the Labour Government.
R.I.P
Robin Cook a man of respect and honer, not once blaming Tony Blair or taking cheap shots at the government, while getting his very valid point across.
He is sadly missed as the voice of reason in the Labour Government.
R.I.P
Last edited by paranoid101 (2007-03-21 18:44:31)
That was the best speech I have ever heard, it is sad not enough other people thought like him this time four years ago.
Waiting for the next 9-11 like a sucker maybe.usmarine2007 wrote:
Where have you been?ATG wrote:
Well lemme just say, that as an American I feel absolutely betrayed by our leaders.Major_Spittle wrote:
Damnit, I don't have sound here at work. Not that I speak Englandish anyway.
We've be lied to and sold-out.
i dunno anymore.
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
What's up with that?
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Better diet. Genetic setback during the great spud famine.
lawlMajor_Spittle wrote:
a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV.
Great speech indeed.
Tiger
Tiger
Starving potatoes??? WTF are you talking about, the real reason for the starvation was because they didn't realize you could also use sheep as a food source.ATG wrote:
Better diet. Genetic setback during the great spud famine.
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Sheeps is for love making boi!
Naw, that's just how the Irish tenderize the rump roast.ATG wrote:
Sheeps is for love making boi!
I guess they were too busy making sexy time with them to realize they are also good eating?Major_Spittle wrote:
Starving potatoes??? WTF are you talking about, the real reason for the starvation was because they didn't realize you could also use sheep as a food source.ATG wrote:
Better diet. Genetic setback during the great spud famine.
Prob not as fond of cheeseburgers as you guys.Major_Spittle wrote:
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
Tisk Tisk Campoe, you arent usually one to generalize.CameronPoe wrote:
Prob not as fond of cheeseburgers as you guys.Major_Spittle wrote:
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
Malloy must go
I don't really think that. Just a petty retort.deeznutz1245 wrote:
Tisk Tisk Campoe, you arent usually one to generalize.CameronPoe wrote:
Prob not as fond of cheeseburgers as you guys.Major_Spittle wrote:
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
lol
Malloy must go
Funny that I watched a man from Derry knock the complete fuck out of an American from Minnesota last weekend in Madison Suare gardens, go figure eh?Major_Spittle wrote:
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
Wow not listening to that guy was a big mistake. Hard to belive this speech was made before the war.CameronPoe wrote:
Just uncovered the resignation speech of Robin Cook (RIP), leader of the UK House of Commons, during the leadup to the war in Iraq. Worth watching.
Robin Cook wrote:
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term - namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.
It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories.
Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create? Why is it necessary to resort to war this week, while Saddam's ambition to complete his weapons programme is blocked by the presence of UN inspectors? 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.
You're mighty Mike Tyson got retired by an Irish man who wasn't exactly pencil necked and weiny. I can guarantee you Major the gang of Irish guys you claim to have trained are not indicative of the average Irish man's physical build. Same way that all Americans are not obese slobs. Me and all most of my mates take weight training very serious and I'm at the absolute optimum of my body mass index.MajorSpittle wrote:
Not to pee on one of Cameron's threads, but I trained a bunch of Irish bloaks and noticed that they were all little pencil necked weiny boys, kinda like most of the people from England you see on TV. But anywho, I noticed that all my friends of Irish origins that are Americans are all built like brick shit houses.
What's up with that?
Not that that really matters as you're comment was pretty much just a flagrant invitation to a flame war!
"Best Resignation Speech" with boxing videos in it. Nice derailment. Boooo!