John Reid
John Reid
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This decision will be taken by the British government, at the request of the Iraqi democratically elected representatives,
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It is the United Nations which must face up to that, and (U.N. Secretary-General) Kofi Annan has made it plain that it intends to face up to that.
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It is a matter of political practicality. In the course of the next four years this decision will take place. It will inevitably be more public than such decisions in the past,
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Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.
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flattered that a number of people have approached him or mentioned to him that he would be a great candidate one day, down the line.
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This is about a threat of the nature that massacred thousands of people in New York,
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I understand also that the Minister of the Interior, at the highest level, instructed that they should be (handed over), that the local judicial authorities said the same,
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In our history we have faced enemies before which have embraced some of these methods. Never, though, have we faced an enemy that embraced them all on such a scale.
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I was asked, what was my response to those people who said that what was going on at Heathrow and elsewhere was all part of a public relations exercise, a spin,
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It is with deep regret that I can confirm the death of two British soldiers, killed by a terrorist bomb as they carried out their duties in south-east Iraq this morning.
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Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.
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And the suggestion that any government would use that sort of subject and phenomenon for spin and public relations I thought was beneath contempt.
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In any theatre of combat in the world where there are competing factions at war, there is always the problem about split loyalties,
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He's a very impressive young man who can play in various roles, so there is some keen interest there,