Tony Blair Iraq

Former Spin Doctor Says Rupert Murdoch Pressured Tony Blair Over Iraq

The Guardian | Nicholas Watt | Posted 06.18.2012 | Media

Rupert Murdoch joined in an "over-crude" attempt by US Republicans to force Tony Blair to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war a week before...

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Tony Blair Protested During Speech At Colby College

HuffingtonPost.com | Hunter Stuart | Posted 05.21.2012 | World

WATERVILLE, Maine -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke to Colby College's 2012 graduating class on Sunday, in a speech that addressed glo...

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Tony Blair On Attacking Iran: 'I'm Not Taking Any Option Off The Table'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Former British prime minister Tony Blair spoke with Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week" today about his new book, A Journey: My Political Life. I...

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Shoe, Eggs Hurled at Ex-Brit PM Blair in Dublin

AP | JOHN HEANEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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DUBLIN — Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's...

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Tony Blair's Big Lie Of Omission

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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In his new book, the former British prime minister asks for a fair hearing on the Iraq war. But he ignores a key meeting where George Bush suggested t...

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Tony Blair Plotted to Free a Terrorist in Exchange for Oil -- Does This Finally Reveal the Truth About Iraq?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Is your life worth more to your government than a few pence added onto Big Oil's share price? Sometimes there is a story that lays out the priorities of governments once the doors are closed and cameras switched off.

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Polanski's Ghost Writer, and Americanising Britain

Steve Sailer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

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That the prime minister has been evolving into the president junior is a recurrent theme of Robert Harris' novel The Ghost, which Roman Polanski has made into The Ghost Writer.

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Tony Blair's Secret Links To Middle East Oil

Evening Standard | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Tony Blair's secret links to Gulf oil giants were revealed today as fresh details emerged of his "carte blanche" support for George Bush's Iraq war. ...

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Chilcot Inquiry: UK's Iraq Inquiry Turns Focus To Bush Officials

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

LONDON — Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war will seek meetings with former members of the Bush administration after taking evidence from Tony B...

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Chilcot Inquiry: Britain Anticipates Tony Blair's Iraq Testimony

GlobalPost | Matthew Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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LONDON, United Kingdom -- With former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's testimony before the Iraq War inquiry now only days away, the nation watches...

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Chilcott Iraq Inquiry: Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's Communications Chief, Defends Dossier

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

LONDON — Spinmaster Alastair Campbell told the Iraq Inquiry on Tuesday that former Prime Minister Tony Blair's team has nothing to apologize for...

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Chilcot Inquiry: Tony Blair Says Lord Goldsmith Was Not Bullied Into Declaring Iraq Invasion Legal

guardian.co.uk | Richard Norton | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Tony Blair has denied a claim that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general at the time of the Iraq war, was "bullied" into declaring that the invasion wa...

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Tony Blair Iraq War WMD Admission Sparks Fresh Outrage

Alice Ritchie | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's recent admission that he would have invaded Iraq even if he knew from the start that it did not have weapons of mas...

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Tony Blair: Even Without Evidence Of WMD, I Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway

The Guardian | Riazat Butt and Richard Norton | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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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 p...

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