"It was one of my regrets that I wasn't able to be more successful in pushing the Americans on this issue a that the planning for reconstruction was essential, just the same as planning for the war," he said.

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...for defence than Harold Wilson. But on the eve of the conflict he was appointed Conservative coordinator on defence and disarmament, to rally the party behind government policies. In the short term he was an...

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...troops to the Iraq war in 2003. The former prime minister spoke out 10 days after facing a six-hour grilling by the latest inquiry into the war led by Sir John Chilcot. Tony Blair takes aim at 'conspiracy...

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Tony Blair attacks Iraq Inquiry as part of Britain's 'obsession with conspiracy theories' Last updated at 9:38 AM on 09th February 2010 Tony Blair yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on the Iraq inquiry...

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Former Prime Minister takes swipe at Iraq Inquiry in TV interview with US Republican By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor Tony Blair and Mike Huckabee: 'There's always got to be a scandal,' Mr Blair told...

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...decision to commit British troops to the Iraq war in 2003. The former prime minister spoke out ten days after a six-hour grilling by the inquiry. Asked yesterday on US television why the UK had held a...

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...and a "scandal" over his decision to commit British troops to the war. Straw told the inquiry that the cabinet included a number of "strong-minded people", among them Gordon Brown, John Prescott, David...

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...in 7 years should it happen this year - Barack Obama puts more weapons into the Gulf. It is all so familiarly depressing. If the US really wants to bring peace to the wider Middle East, it must: 1. Insist...

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He said that if action had not been taken in 2003 to topple Saddam, Iraq could now be locked in a nuclear arms race with Iran with potential devastating consequences for the region and the wider world. But...

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He said that if action had not been taken in 2003 to topple Saddam, Iraq could now be locked in a nuclear arms race with Iran with potential devastating consequences for the region and the wider world.

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...the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore. LONDON - He was right and he'd do it again. That was Tony Blair's message Friday as he fought for his place...

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...mass destruction impossible to ignore. The former British prime minister said he reflected every day on the decision to go to war - a decision that haunts his legacy. He said he felt "responsibility, but not a...

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...ignore. The former British prime minister said before the 9/11 attacks he thought a Saddam was a menace, that he was a threat, he was a monster, but we would have to try and make the best of it.a But then...

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...of weapons of mass destruction. In that case, Blair said, "I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat." Blair was almost unconditionally loyal...

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...death of Jamie Bulger to attack the Tory government of the day. Tory strategists believe that the Prime Minister has made a mistake by focusing Labour's General Election campaign on the economy, when less...

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Last updated at 1:42 AM on 03rd January 2010 Former Prime Minister Sir John Major launched a devastating attack on Tony Blair yesterday, effectively accusing his Downing Street successor of going to war in Iraq...

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According to the evidence already given to Chilcot, it was a condition of UK participation in the war that it must have the prior approval of the UN Security Council, which Blair manifestly failed to get. The...

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...Britain and said that some members of the press had a score to settle with him. "But they are not going to settle it," he added. "It's not true that nobody likes me. Reading the papers in Britain, you'd end up...

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...government for destroying "the national sense of culture". John Drummond was chairman of the Theatres Trust near the end of his life (1998-2001). He had also been on the Council of Management of the new music...

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...dozen other threats to word peace. Nor is it about him misleading Parliament, and his people, by fabricating evidence of WMDs, or using evidence he knew had been fabricated. It's unimaginable that Blair would...

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