Tributes to Robin Cook are on every paper today, even Galloway's the RESPECT coalition have dubbed him "one of the most powerful and principled advocates of peace", a whitewash, Robin Cook was hardly that.

As the shadow foreign secretary Robin Cook was one of the architects of New Labours so called "ethical foreign policy", and one month into power he put it in place. Crook then went on to secure the sale of 9 British Aerospace Hawk jets to the Indonesian government in 1999, a government well renouned at the time for it's violent crushing of East Timor.
As soon as New Labour came to power, Crook could be found in Indonesia, shaking the hand of the mass muderer Soeharto.

Unlike RESPECT or any other party, or the Corporate media, I am not lamenting the death of Robin Crook - the arms trader.