Tony Blair was right about Gordon Brown. Today we have confirmation of the bitterness and disagreements at the top of the Blair government. All that spinning and all those stories turn out to have been well founded. Tony Blair was wrong about the Middle East. He still thinks there are military solutions to Middle Eastern
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JohnRedwood on 1st Sep 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
Tony Blair thinks about the soldiers and civilians who died in the Iraq war every day and suffers from continued doubts about whether he did the right thing, the former prime minister says in a new interview. Blair, now Middle East envoy for the Quartet group comprising the US, UN, EU and Russia, says he does not know whether history will vindicate him over the decision to invade Iraq. "I don'...
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Guardian on 30th Jan 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, Tony Blair has given an interview to The Times. What’s making news is his—to my mind, accurate--warnings about just how dangerous it would be for the Middle East for the Iranian regime to get a nuclear bomb. But what struck me about the interview was how much easier Blair believed things would be in Afghanistan and Iraq than the...
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Spectator on 9th Sep 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
The conflict between Israel and Hamas can be resolved, ex-UK prime minister and current Middle East envoy Tony Blair insists.
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BBCPolitics on 6th Jan 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The BBC's Jon Sopel joins Tony Blair on a visit to the Middle East, in his capacity as envoy for "the Quartet".
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BBCPolitics on 26th Jun 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Tony Blair, former prime minister and now envoy to the Middle East has admitted having doubts about his decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
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PoliticsCoUk on 30th Jan 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
The UK's former ambassador to Iran has accused Tony Blair of misreading the threat posed by the Middle Eastern country.
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Telegraph on 31st Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Good to see that Tony Blair is still worth every penny* he receives for being Middle East peace envoy. I reckon he might be on to something here when it comes to a solution to the problem that has dogged the world since biblical times… …if people really want to sort it out, they’ll sort it
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ChickenYoghurt on 2nd Jun 2009 (via chickyog.net)
Tony Blair has been accused of delivering a "piece of spin" after claiming that Iran's support for insurgents almost caused the failure of the British-US mission in Iraq.
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Telegraph on 30th Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair is back in the news with the whole debate over the Iraq inquiry so I was intrigued to watch this interview of Blair by Graydon Carter, the notoriously anti-war, anti-Bush editor of Vanity Fair. It took place on Tuesday and what is striking about it is just how much more comfortable in his own skin than Brown, Blair is. Historians will puzzle over why the Labour party was so ke...
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Spectator on 24th Jun 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)