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The class war is over.

The class war is over.

Tony Blair
War, Class

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Tony Blair
Children, War, Generations
"What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Tony Blair
War, Tyrants, Justice
Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Tony Blair
Memories, War, Europe
Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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

Tony Blair
War, Wmd, Iraq
Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

Tony Blair
War, People, Way

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

Tony Blair
War, Views, Iraq

Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

Tony Blair
Couple, War, Struggle
BBC Question Time's election special programme, April 28, 2005.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Tony Blair
War, Chance, Sometimes
"Blair promises to be bolder" by Mark Davies, news.bbc.co.uk. October 1, 2002.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Tony Blair
War, Thinking, Government
"A declaration of war on this medieval royal prerogative" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2005.

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

Tony Blair
War, Thug, Reality

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