Blair defends Iraq war, urges party to heal rifts
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried yesterday to heal divisions over the Iraq war and unite his Labour party to fight for a historic third term in power.
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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 in Parliament to apologize for misleading his 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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British troops would be redeployed in Iraq to help stabilize the conflict-torn country, not boost President Bush's chances of re-election, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday as he tried to quell dissent among skeptical lawmakers.
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Tony Blair yesterday offered critics of his Iraq war strategy his most contrite justification for the conflict so far but stopped short of an outright apology, removing the word &quot;sorry&quot; from the text of his speech to Labour&#39;s Brighton conference in
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Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that the war in Iraq has divided Britain but said he had no apologies for helping topple Saddam Hussein in a speech Tuesday to his Labour Party, where he was met by angry delegates and hecklers.
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Tony Blair yesterday warned the west not to lose the will to win the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as he hit back at those who claim the Iraq war has gone wrong because of a lack of planning.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong.
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Tony Blair on Monday strongly defended intervening in Iraq for the final time as prime minister before parliament&#39;s top scrutiny body.
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BRIGHTON, England Sept. 28, 2004 - Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that the war in Iraq has divided Britain but said he had no apologies for helping topple Saddam Hussein in a speech Tuesday to his
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday rejected suggestions that the ongoing violence in Iraq was because of flawed planning by the U.S.-led coalition, but he also said he felt a deep responsibility to end the killings.
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GATESHEAD, England  - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday sought to heal bitter divisions over the war in Iraq, promising the public he had learned important lessons and hungered for a third term in office.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair offered his governing Labor Party a qualified apology on Tuesday that the evidence on which he had taken Britain to war in Iraq had proved wrong.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to bridge the trans-Atlantic rift over Iraq, urging a &quot;fractured, divided and uncertain&quot; world to unite in the wake of President Bush&#39;s election victory.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a qualified apology for some of the judgments he had made in taking the country to war.
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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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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair defended Thursday armed interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying Britain should be ready to use force again to prevent genocide, oppression and injustice.
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Los Angeles Times - BRIGHTON, England &#8212; British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pummeled over the Iraq war, faced his critics at his Labor Party's annual conference Tuesday and said he had erred in accepting faulty intelligence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed chemical and biological weapons.