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Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, former British prime minister Tony Blair said today. Original post: We would have backed Iraq war without WMD threat: Blair
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BBC News - Removal of Saddam Hussein 'right', says Tony Blair
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Tony Blair says faith gave him strength to make tough decisions. (Clip courtesy of Fern Britton Meets... Tony Blair) It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said it was the notion of him as a threat to the region which had tilted him in favour of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Without WMD claims it would ...
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The Guardian : Tony Blair has said he would have invaded Iraq even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public. The former prime minister made the confession during an interview with Fern Britton, to be broadcast on Sunday on BBC1, in which he said he would still have thought it right to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Read the whole story: The Guardian
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