I intend to join those tomorrow night who vote against military action now.

It is for that reason, and that reason alone, and with a heavy heart that I've resigned from the government.

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay, that was Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party,

resigning as Foreign Secretary on March 17, 2003 over the Iraq War.

And I just want to start this episode playing that clip because this was something you could actually do.

You could resign, no matter how high your position, no matter how central you were to the cabinet of your government.

In contrast, here is Colin Powell, Secretary of State, Reluctant Warrior,

Peace Nick General, the Good Republican, about a month earlier in front of the UN Security Council.

We know that Sodom Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction.

He's determined to make more.

Clearly, Sodom Hussein and his regime will stop it nothing until something stops him.

I don't think it's crazy to say that if there's one person inside of the government, inside the Bush administration,

who could have stopped the Iraq War.

Who had all of the credibility in the world.

Yes.

Colin Powell was the one person who perhaps could have stopped the whole thing in its tracks with the resignation.

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