Tony Blair

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7-6-17
  

  Chilcot: Tony Blair was not 'straight with the nation' over Iraq war

  Head of Iraq inquiry says he does not believe former PM was clear enough about his decisions in the run-up to war.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-19-16
  

  The Chilcot Report: Bush Ignored Numerous Warnings Before Invading Iraq

  The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-14-16
  

  How Tony Blair fumbled Iraq’s child mortality statistics

  by Michael Spagat

  At a dramatic moment in Tony’s Blair’s testimony before the Iraq Inquiry back in 2010, he argued that the invasion had saved the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqi children who would otherwise have perished at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. But Blair was wrong.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7-10-16
  

  Tony Blair could face Iraq contempt vote in Commons

  A group of senior MPs is calling for a vote to decide whether Tony Blair is guilty of contempt of Parliament over his decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-7-16
  

  Blunt Political Assessments in Bill Clinton Transcripts

  Newly released documents offer a fresh look at Bill Clinton’s later years in the White House, including transcribed phone calls and meetings with Tony Blair, the British prime minister.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  1-7-16
  

  This Is How the West Tried to Persuade Gaddafi to Give Up Power

  The U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has released the transcripts of two phone callsbetween former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the late leader of Libya, in which Blair delicately tries to get Gaddafi give up power.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment blog
  10-26-15
  

  Bush Lapdog Blair can’t Even Apologize Correctly for Destabilizing the Middle East

  by Juan Cole

  Blair’s “apologies” always take the form of the little boy who, when instructed to apologize for calling a lady fat, says, “Lady, I’m sorry you’re fat.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-25-15
  

  Tony Blair makes qualified apology for Iraq war ahead of Chilcot report

  Former British PM admits ‘mistakes’ and conflict’s role in rise of Islamic State but defends armed intervention in 2003

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• SOURCE: The Scotsman
  6-22-15
  

  Tony Blair now admits Iraq War was a mistake

  One of Tony Blair’s closest allies and political friends Lord Falconer has admitted he and Blair think the Iraq war was a mistake.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment blog
  

  Can Tony Blair Mess up Egypt even Worse?

  by Juan Cole

  With his Neoliberal biases and his hatred of political Islam, Blair will reinforce the worst instincts of the current government.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  6-15-14
  

  Blair-Bush & Iraq: It’s not just the quagmire but the Lawbreaking & Deception

  by Juan Cole

  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is complaining that he is unfairly blamed for causing the current mess in Iraq and that if Saddam had still been in power it would be just as unstable.