22-01-2011, 07:37 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:It seems that Robin Cook was essentially the only minister with both the experience and the integrity to tell British intelligence that they had overinterpreted the available evidence to paint Saddam as more of a threat than he was.
Of course Cook continued complaining about the manipulation of "evidence" in the runup to the war on Iraq, and ended up dead on a Scottish mountain in August 2005.
Cook died of a sudden heart attack.
Curiously enough, so did Labour leader John Smith prior to the 1997 election that swept Bliar to power. Had Smith lived, Bliar would not have become Prime Minister in a million years.
Suspicious minds merely note these things.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14