Blair denies politics plays role in decisions on troops
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that British troops would only be redeployed to the more volatile, US-controlled sector of Iraq if it was militarily justified.
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The British government Monday rejected claims it was planning to put some of its troops under U.S. command as a political show of support for President Bush ahead of the presidential election.
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Britain has not yet decided whether to send 650 troops to relieve US forces in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday, while rejecting suggestions that such a move would be aimed at boosting US President George W. Bush's electoral campaign.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended his decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq, disagreeing with UN chief Kofi Annan's assessment that the war was illegal.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced a revolt on Wednesday from lawmakers who demanded a parliamentary vote on a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq.
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BRIGHTON : A combative Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to apologise for taking Britain into the Iraq war, as he rallied the Labour Party to unite and win a third straight term in a general election likely to take place in 2005.
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The armed forces minister says UK troops are not "political playthings" who will be deployed to the advantage of the US.
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Tony Blair faces a growing political row over Iraq after it emerged that hundreds of British troops may soon be sent to the Baghdad region in order to fight under American command.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Iraq will not be the decisive  factor for Britons in the next election, Tony Blair said on  Wednesday, as his party pondered the prime minister's  conditional apology over the war.
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Tony Blair kept looking behind him when being challenged over the decision to re-deploy UK troops in Iraq. Was he looking for cheers of support from his backbenchers, or watching for the knives spinning towards his back?
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Answering parliamentary questions Wednesday, Prime Minister Tony Blair strongly denied that he misrepresented pre-war intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein&#39;s mass destruction weapons arsenal.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been warned not to put British troops in Iraq in danger merely as a âpolitical gestureâ to the American administration.
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Tony Blair rejects Tory claims that he went to war without a comprehensive plan to restore normality in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faces strong dissent from British lawmakers over a decision to redeploy some of his countryâs troops to Baghdad, as per a request from US government officials.
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LONDON  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday rejected charges from the Conservative opposition that he &quot;misrepresented&quot; intelligence used to make the case for invading Iraq.
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The Prime Minister insisted today that no decision had yet been taken on sending British troops to relieve their US allies in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair rules out taking part in a televised election debate with his political rivals.