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For his part, Bush lauded Blair and the UK. In his post-9/11 speech, ... Blair has used his Quartet Tony Blair Associates works with the Kazakhstan government, ...
In attendance was British Prime Minister Tony Blair who expressed his solidarity. [1] On October 7, 2001, a coalition led by the United States military began an invasion of Afghanistan that would lead to the overthrow of the Taliban government. [2] The president described the coming war as a battle between good and evil.
Following 9/11, the Bush administration national security team actively considered an invasion of Iraq. According to aides who were with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the National Military Command Center on 11 September, Rumsfeld asked for: "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit Saddam Hussein at same time. Not only Osama bin Laden."
"Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" was a British political slogan associated with New Labour.It was used in a September 1993 speech by Shadow Home Secretary and future party leader Tony Blair to the Labour party conference, [1] and was seen as an attempt at triangulation, with Labour using the slogan to attack the "tough on crime" approach traditionally favoured by the Conservative ...
September 20 – President Bush delivers an address to a joint session of Congress with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Rudy Giuliani, and George Pataki in attendance. He thanks the people of the world for their outpouring support for the U.S. following the September 11 attacks, and declares, "Our grief has turned to anger; and anger to ...
Tony Blair was only a few months into his tenure as British prime minister in 1997 when he got a close look at how Queen Elizabeth II responded to a tragedy that reverberated around the world when ...
In British politics, Blairism is the political ideology of Tony Blair, the former leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007, and those that support him, known as Blairites. It entered the New Penguin English Dictionary in 2000. [ 1 ]
Oxford educated Blair was known for his charisma and more "modern" attitude, encouraging those around him to simply refer to his as Tony (the queen, more of a traditionalist, reportedly demurred ...