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Born May 6, 1953

Edinburgh, Scotland

Prime minister of Great Britain during the 2003 Iraq War

"Iraq has chemical and biological weapons."

Tony Blair quoted in "The Tony Blair Dossier."

Avocal opponent of Saddam Hussein (see entry), British Prime Minister Tony Blair aligned himself with U.S. President George W. Bush (see entry) and urged military action to prevent the Iraqi leader from developing weapons of mass destruction. Despite widespread international opposition to the war, Blair committed British military forces to the U.S.-led invasion and postwar stabilization of Iraq. When no evidence of an Iraqi weapons program was found after Hussein was removed from power, Blair defended himself against charges that he misled the British people about the Iraq threat.

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