Blair defied cabinet doubters over Iraq war: diaries
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Former prime minister Tony Blair&#39;s cabinet colleagues had severe doubts about his decision to take Britain to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published Monday.
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The secretary of state's assertion to the president and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last month indicates that there was a tough debate behind closed doors as the Bush administration reexamined its handling of Iraq in the wake of the president's reelection victory.
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Senior members of Tony Blair's government suffered "severe moments of doubt" about whether to back the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the former prime minister's closest aide said on Monday.
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Tony Blair defied intensifying pressure from within his governing Labour Party to outline his plans for leaving office, saying in an interview published Friday that critics should stop obsessing about how long he'll hold on to power.
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Tony Blair denies scaremongering as he puts security measures at the heart of pre-election plans.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there was no rift in his Cabinet over his government's handling of the conflict in Lebanon, and a British lawmaker publicly backed him on Sunday.
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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.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted Thursday there was &quot;no planning&quot; under way for an attack on Iran, while defending his record on Iraq.
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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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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has avoided a damaging blow at Labour&#39;s annual conference when a motion urging him to set an early date for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq was defeated.
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Leaked documents show a gulf between public statements on Iraq and private talks with the White House. Francis Elliott reports. Tony Blair privately promised George Bush he would not budge in his support for
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LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair gave his most explicit apology to date Wednesday for the flawed intelligence assessments upon which he took Britain to war in Iraq, but he rejected opposition demands that he say he was sorry for &quot;misrepresenting
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British prime minister Tony Blair held talks Tuesday with Iraq's interim prime minister Ayad Allawi, during a surprise visit to Iraq that comes ahead of national elections and amid a fierce insurgency.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied that his government's foreign policy, including the war in Iraq, was to blame for terrorism.
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The prime minister insisted no decision had yet been taken on sending British troops to relieve US allies in Iraq. Repeatedly challenged at prime minister&#39;s question time, Mr Blair said it was a military decision
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TONY Blair refused to say sorry for the Iraq war yesterday, after a last-minute change of mind over a conference apology. In his Brighton address, the Prime Minister
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BRIGHTON, England British Prime Minister Tony Blair is admitting some of the country's intelligence on Iraq was wrong.