Blair Backs Iraqi Election, Rallies UK Troops
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BASRA, Iraq  - Protected by U.S. Black Hawk  helicopters, Britain's Tony Blair flew into Iraq on Tuesday in  a surprise show of political bravado designed to boost  prospects for Iraqi elections and cheer UK troops before  Christmas.
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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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BRIGHTON, England  - Tony Blair said on Wednesday  he believed Iraq would not be the decisive issue when Britons  come to vote at next year's expected election.
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LONDON (CP) - Britain gave the strongest signal yet on Tuesday that it will agree to a United States request to move its troops in Iraq to support American military operations as pressure builds on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reject the overture.
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THE re-election of British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be seen as an endorsement of the military action in Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
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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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Tony Blair said on Wednesday he believed Iraq would not be the decisive issue when Britons come to vote at next year's expected election.
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Blair says move driven by need to secure the area before Iraq&#39;s Jan. elections; critics say it is more about US elections in Nov. British troops currently deployed in central Iraq are likely &quot;heading for an
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Britain's Tony Blair forecast an upsurge  in violence in Iraq ahead of planned January elections but said  Wednesday he had not yet decided on a U.S. request for back-up  from UK troops.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday to meet Iraqi Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for elections scheduled  for January.
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Whatever Tony Blair tells the British public and the House of Commons there is certainly a political motivation to his government's decision to deploy forces closer to Baghdad.
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LONDON - Britain gave the strongest signal yet on Tuesday that it will agree to a United States request to move its troops in Iraq to support American military operations as pressure builds on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reject the overture.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, who supported the Iraq war at considerable political peril, could use some payback from the United States with British elections around the corner.
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Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Baghdad today to throw his weight behind next month&#39;s elections and said the rising tide of violence in the country reflected &quot;a battle between democracy and terror&quot;.
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Britain today welcomed the announcement that nationwide elections would be held in Iraq on January 30, despite the continuing violence in many parts of the country.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will seek this week to use his support for President Bush in Iraq as a lever for greater US commitment to the quest for peace in the Middle East.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged his support for the Iraqi government and declared that British troops would remain in Iraq âuntil the job is done.â