You are now changing your position. You said earlier anyone in the PM shoes would have made the decision to go to war (against Iraq). Cook and Short would not have (it is irrelevant whether you think they were suitable to to be PM or not). Cook was also an ex Foreign Secretary, so he did know a...
That is just not correct. Robin Cook if he had been PM would not have. He resigned from the cabinet over the issue, as did Claire Short.
Also Jacques Chirac (and France) chose not to go to war against Iraq