Blair defied cabinet doubters over Iraq war
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Former prime minister Tony Blair overrode cabinet colleagues who had doubts about going to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published Monday.
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The presidentÂs national security adviser sidestepped questions about how the administration would react to the release of the Iraq Study GroupÂs report.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair shrugged off criticism of his close alliance with US President George W. Bush ahead of a visit to Washington, calling such links &quot;part of the job&quot;.
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BRIGHTON, England  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair won the backing of his Labour party Thursday to keep British troops in Iraq, avoiding a humiliating defeat that would have undermined his leadership.
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(CBS/AP) Prime Minister Tony Blair vigorously denied on Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands for an apology from opponents in Parliament who accuse him of misleading the country.
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair vigorously denied on Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands for an apology from opponents in Parliament who accuse him of misleading the country.    Blair again accepted that British intelligence pointing to stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons was flawed, but he insisted he had been right to back the U.S.-led invasion...
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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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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair weathered yet another storm over the Iraq conflict yesterday, vigorously denying he misled Britain over Iraqi weapons and refusing to apologize for the war.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair vigorously denied on Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands in Parliament to apologize for misleading his country.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and rounded on the media Tuesday for acting like a &quot;feral beast&quot; ripping reputations apart.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a qualified apology that the evidence on which he had taken Britain to war had proved wrong.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied reports that his foreign minister, Jack Straw, had warned him a year before the US-led invasion of Iraq that a war could push the country into chaos.
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BRIGHTON (England) - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday defended the war in Iraq, insisting he could not apologise for toppling Saddam Hussein, and urged his party to unite and fight for a historic third term in power.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair weathered yet another storm over the Iraq conflict on Wednesday, vigorously denying he misled Britain over Iraqi weapons and refusing to apologize for the war.
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Tony Blair reacts defiantly to the official confirmation Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
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Britain's Tony Blair returned from Africa Friday to a fresh rumpus over his justification for the Iraq war after a minister gave the government's first direct apology for faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
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By Toby Helm, Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and David Rennie in Washington. Tony Blair&#39;s closest Cabinet allies yesterday rejected claims that he had struck a &quot;tawdry political deal&quot; to help George W Bush&#39;s election