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Iraq Inquiry: Tony Blair gives evidence
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The former prime minister is grilled by the panel on the threat of Saddam Hussein, meeting with George Bush and WMDs.
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Tony Blair Defends Legacy
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair is testifying in front of a British Inquiry to defend himself about why he backed the American led invasion of Iraq. Richard Roth reports.
Blair: 'Nothing Was Decided' At Bush's Ranch
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Blair: 'Nothing Was Decided' At Bush's Ranch
Ruth Barnett and Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online
Tony Blair has insisted to an inquiry that "nothing was decided" about war in Iraq during private talks with the US President.
Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry asked Mr Blair about a key meeting with President George W Bush at his Crawford ranch.
Evidence presented to the panel has suggested the then Prime Minister gave Mr Bush a private assurance the UK would join a US invasion of Iraq, before he said this to Parliament.
"There was never actually anything decided," he said.
The meeting was an attempt to "establish a close and strong relationship" with the American leader, he said.
He insisted his private sentiments matched his public sentiments.
"The only commitment I gave and I gave this very openly, was the commitment to deal with Saddam [Hussein]," he added.
The former Prime Minister began his evidence by describing how the UK's policy towards the Iraqi leader changed after the terror attacks on the United States in 2001.
Blair and Bush in Crawford, April 2002
"Up to September 11 we thought he was a risk but we thought it was worth trying to contain it," Mr Blair told the Chilcot inquiry.
"The crucial thing after September 11 is that the calculus of risk changed."
Mr Blair appeared to suggest the "option" of removing Saddam from power "had always been there" for the Government.
He acknowledged members of his Cabinet, such as the then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and International Development Secretary Clare Short, did not always agree with him on Iraq.
"I was never short of people challenging me," he said.
Mr Blair was quizzed about comments he made in a television interview with Fern Britton last month.
He appeared to say it would still have been right to invade Iraq even if it was known at the time that Saddam did not have the weapons of mass destruction that were the pretext for the war.
"Even will all my experience in dealing with interviews, it still indicates I've got something to learn about it," he told the panel.
"I didn't use the words 'regime change' in that interview and I didn't mean in any sense to change the basis," he added.
Blair: '9/11 Changed Our View Of The Risks'
Mr Blair managed to avoid protesters outside the venue, entering by a cordoned off rear entrance.
Today's inquiry audience includes family members of soldiers and civilians killed or missing in the country.
The Inquiry has heard that a series of government lawyers and British diplomats agreed the war would be illegal without a United Nations security council resolution, but were overruled by Mr Blair.
Anti-war protesters are holding a demonstration outside the QEII conference centre in Westminster where Mr Blair is being questioned.
The Inquiry is expected to publish its report late next year but will not assign blame or determine if there was criminal conduct.
Protests as Tony Blair arrives at the Iraq Inquiry
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As Tony Blair arrives at the Iraq Inquiry, Lindsey German from the Stop the War coalition is among the protesters. . Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_news.
Tony Blair Admits He Would Have Invaded Iraq Anyway
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WAR CRIMINAL Tony Blair meets Fern Britton on BBC1 and admits he would have found another way to invade Iraq if it wasn't for the "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" excuse.
Tony Blair Admits to David Frost the War in Iraq is a Disaster
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On Al-Jazeera English Sir David Frost interviews British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who admits (albeit in passing) that the war in Iraq is a disaster. They also talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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