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What Role Did Tony Blair Play In The Arab Israeli Conflict
Tony Blair's Role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

First things first - Tony Blair's actions represented the role and perspective of both the United Kingdom and the United States in the Arab-Israeli conflict. His own words addressed to the President George Bush were the evidence of this; in 2002, a year before the UK invaded Iraq, Blair sent a tape to George Bush which said he would support him anyway.
At the beginning of the invasion, the British government supported Blair and Bush, but after the operation in Iraq, that was not that successful as it planned to be, the authority of this decision, and Blair's authority as well, decreased pretty much a lot. Yes, Hussain was killed, but the UK lost 179 soldiers there as well; it probably did not look like very many, but this number could be much lower if the government prepared for the invasion better than they did. Although, as written above, Hussain was assassinated, the peace-providing operation turned into a real war that lasted for several months and took lives of thousands of civilians. According to these facts, the UN, people in the British government who were not in Labour Party, other experts, after seeing what British troops have done in Iraq, criticized Blair's decision to invade Iraq, and they had some good reasons to do it. The first one was that the army did not prepare for
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He also said that he took responsibility for all his actions during the

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