Israel Quotes by Tony Blair

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

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I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

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Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

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The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit

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I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

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There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.

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The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.

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The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

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Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

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There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000…

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I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done…

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The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

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As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass…

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Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to…

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The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

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I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

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I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of…

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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is…

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For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that…

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The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to…

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The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims…

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If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing…

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I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we…

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Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden… As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or…

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You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying,…

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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

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The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

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We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists.

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I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

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We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally…

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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver

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The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam…

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Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must…

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King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king.…

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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,…

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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that…

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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

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