Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blairis a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Together with then-US President George W. Bush, he initiated the Iraq War with the invasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth6 May 1953
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
expect visitors warm
Visitors can expect a traditional place that has been completely renovated and a warm welcome.
apparently chaos jack minute papers sent warned
Having read in the papers that apparently I was warned of the chaos that was going to ensue in Iraq, I actually got the minute Jack sent me. It didn't do anything of the sort,
agree replace saddam totally warned
What it warned of was this: it's very important that we don't replace one dictator, Saddam Hussein, with another. I totally agree with that.
war chance dictator
Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
couple war struggle
Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!
war iraq views
The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
degrees global-warming downing
Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree
memories war europe
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
war class
The class war is over.
war people way
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.
war thug reality
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.
war tyrants justice
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
war thinking government
I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
war iraq wmd
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.