Sunday, Feb 7th, 2010 by Tim Keeling
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“Of course now with the benefit of hindsight we look back on the situation differently.
“But let me say what was troubling me at the time was supposing we put it the other way round and it was correct and I wasn’t going to act on it, that was the thing that worried me.
“And when I talked earlier about the calculus of risk changing after September 11, it is really, really important, I think, to understand this, so far as understanding the decision I took and frankly would take again – if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him. That was my view. That was my view then and it’s my view now.”
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Tony Blair at the Chilcot Enquiry
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“Of course now with the benefit of hindsight we look back on the situation differently.
“But let me say what was troubling me at the time was supposing we put it the other way round and it was correct and I wasn’t going to act on it, that was the thing that worried me.
“And when I talked earlier about the calculus of risk changing after September 11, it is really, really important, I think, to understand this, so far as understanding the decision I took and frankly would take again – if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him. That was my view. That was my view then and it’s my view now.”