Tony Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and leader of the Labour Party. A key ally of the United States in the Iraq War, he contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard making the case for intervention in Iraq during the early 2000s.
British prime minister Tony Blair visited Baghdad on December 21. Excerpts from Blair's remarks at his press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Iyad Allawi, are reprinted below.
Faced with mounting pressure from within his own Labour party, as well as from other European leaders, British prime minister Tony Blair last week courageously and forcefully made the case for regime change in Iraq. Here are excerpts from Blair's remarks during his 90-minute press conference on…