GWT: British Prime Minister addresses nation
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2015
- (20 Mar 2003)
1. SOUNDBITE: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:
"On Tuesday night I gave the order for British forces to take part in military action in Iraq. Tonight British servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea. Their mission: to remove Saddam Hussein from power and disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. I know this course of action has caused deep divisions of opinion in our country. But I know also that the British people will be united in sending our armed forces our thoughts and prayers. They are the finest in the world and their families and all of Britain can have great pride in them. The threat to Britain today is not that of my father's generation. War between the big powers is unlikely, Europe is at peace, the Cold War already a memory. But this new world faces a new threat of disorder and chaos, born either of brutal states like Iraq, armed with weapons of mass destruction, or extreme terrorist groups. Both, hate our way of life, our freedom, our democracy. My fear, deeply held and based in part on intelligence that I say, is that these threats come together and deliver catastrophe to our country and our world. These tyrannical states do not care for the sanctity of human life, the terrorists delight in destroying it. Some say if we act we become a target, the truth is all nations are targets. Bali was never in the frontline of action against terrorism, America did not attack Al Qaida, they attacked America. Britain has never been a nation to hide at the back, but even if we were it wouldn't avail us. Should terrorists obtain these weapons now being manufactured and traded around the world, the carnage they could inflict to our economies, our security, to world peace, would be beyond our most vivid imagination.....(continues)...."
STORYLINE:
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair made an address to the nation on Thursday, explaining the reasons for his support of the US-led war on Saddam Hussein and urging the British people to get behind him.
Blair warned that, on the basis of intelligence, inaction concerning Iraq was not an option.
The British Prime Minister said that no nation was safe from terrorism, citing the bombing in Bali as evidence that any country could be considered a target for extremists.
The address was recorded in earlier in the day, Blair is in Brussels attending a meeting of EU leaders.
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Legend has it, hes still looking for the weapons of mass destruction.
Source?
Still toppled a dictator in Hussein and brought the british people a prosperous life.
@@deaninit8617
Yeah...
No.
We all know what happend in Iraq.
@@deaninit8617 Were you smoking crack when you said that or being sarcastic lol
@@deaninit8617 perfect example why Britain has to be destroyed.
You did great Tony. Iraq is thriving and peaceful now.. * full sarcasm intended *
We're not nation-building. Iraq has always been a corrupt country and the only thing that held it together was a violent tyrant who instilled fear of death and torture into anyone who opposed him. War ended a long time ago, Iraq is responsible for its own failures.
@@jakel8627USA: We will bring freedom and democracy to Iraq
Also USA: Iraq is a corrupt country that can't be turned into a free and democratic state, they're responsible for their own failures!!!
Also, I wonder who supported that violent tyrant in his war against Iran and supplied him with chemical weapons? 🤔🤔
2:05 "This threat is real, growing, and of an entirely different nature to any conventional threat to our security that Britain has faced before"
3:08 "Removing Saddam will be a blessing to the Iraqi people."
What you are saying. They are enjoying their hard earned freedom and democracy by pretending to be dead.
It was a first it turned out not in years after.
Turned out well that quote
aged like milk
They knew there were no WMDs when they invaded
Kuwait didn't have weapons of mass destruction but Iraq invaded and annexed it. Does any Kuwaiti citizen today want to be part of Iraq again? No
and the mustard gas???? but thats ok to murder woman and children?
U can literally take any quote from this speech and make a joke out of literally wtf-💀
Worst thing you ever did was remove him from Iraq, he was evil yes, but kept order with all the factions .
True... although he could have done a Hitler, he even used to admire Hitler
@@itsjacob7239 I mean he was already sending people's relatives to them dead through their letterboxes and using chemical weapons on the Kurds...
Blair had to go Bush wanted war.
@@itsjacob7239 Source?
Money from the Iraqi oil will be put in a trust fund for the Iraqi people 🤣🤣🤣 does he really think the people are stupid enough to believe that rofl😆😆😆😆😆😆
In Iraq and Afghanistan, Blair and Bush gave control of these assets to their friends who turned out to be corrupt. The UN oil for food program is one of the most corrupt and shameful schemes ever.
@@clairealabdalla5507exactly 💯
With hindsight everytime he says "weapons of mass destruction" is like when a defendant cant stop incriminating himself in court.
You're watching the fatal symptoms of hubristic leader syndrome manifesting terminally in Blair here. Sad. He could have been so much more if it wasn't for this catastrophic mistake.
-mistake- evil.
0:10 To remove Saddam Hussien from power and disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
Matt Orfalea lol
Though he previously assured the British people that he *wasn’t* seeking a regime change- which is in fact illegal.
You can’t remove weapons of mass destruction if they weren’t there to begin with.
3:39 "We shall help Iraq move towards Democracy."
Dumbest thing ever said but I don’t blame Blair I blame the people of Iraq who keep electing leftist politicians that don’t want peace with the US or Israel. What’s the point of bringing democracy to a nation that wants to keep electing dictators?
But look at it now it’s never been the same and terror attacks have been rising
blaiming the people of iraq for the invasion of an unwanted country
@@adrian457896 In other words how dare they vote for someone who isn't a U.S/Mossad puppet
@@adrian457896 you can't make peace with an invader
All u can hear is ... oil oil oil oil oil oil oil oil oil oil oil oil
Mr Blair was made blind by success in his previous wars: Sierra Leone,Kosovo,Macedonia,Timor East and Afghanistan. In the Iraq conflict Blair became Bliar. Things did not go as planned.....
Saturday 18th March 2023, will be 20th anniversary of the Iraq War. How do that event happened since 2003?
which weapons of mass destruction lol?
How the hell this man still alive today
Rich and powerful only 67
Only the good die young
history is written by the victors
Aged like a fine wine, just not for the Iraqis
throw him in jail
No
For toppling a dictator? We need another Blair. Centre left politics is the best.
@@ciaranmarsh255 yes
@@louisbeerreviews8964 no
Unlikely to happen.
Remember Dr David Kelly
This is B B C ONE.
Now, A Prime Ministerial Broadcast by the Right Honourable Tony Blair, M P
War Criminal
"Their mission?"
I wonder if this was a deliberate echo of Star Trek.
Or mission impossible, "your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the nuclear weapons."
4:28 "That is why I've asked our troops to go into action tonight."
"Commanded my troops ..."
Send him to the gulag fir rest of his life
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29441383
It would never happen, what do you expected from the British Empire? The true is that UK intervention in middle east started after WW1
Illuminated lamp behind him, illuminati behind him. Hidden symbolism.
How can this man sleep at night ?
Like a very rich baby.
Demon's don't sleep
He has no soul
Where is this trust fund ? How have you put back their oil money in Iraq?
Where are those WMDs right now? 😫
@Daniel Clark Clark Sick in the head
Mans wanted that oil not saddam out
Hey Tony any news on that UN fund for the Iraqi oil...how did that get on?
But not much of an improvement was made.
It now looks as though Iraq might have to be split in two. (Kurdistan ought to be independent anyway)
March 20, 2003 - The Day of Shame - the Day when we have lost our Future!
"The sanctity of human life" 😂
Coming from a British person makes even funnier 🤣🤣
He looks like he wanted to cry all throughout that
Well that went well Tony - for arms dealers !
And why do you fully support Iranian regime in all possible ways? You are now giving them cash money for the Terminated Tank Contract? Why?!
Send him to Afghanistan,he is badly needed there.
Oil.....end of debate.
china sucked the oil dry you fool
Watching this now is amusing.
You will pay for your crimes sooner or later
That was A Prime Ministerial Broadcast by the Right Honourable Tony Blair, M P
🤡🤡👆🏼👆🏼
😂😂😂😂
@@julia2k8 thank you.
@@adamwithey4746 you calling him honorable is what made me laugh, I wonder if you were being serious or sarcastic
@@julia2k8 good it must be a bbc continuity announcer as we speak
Very Easy create a war, when others aré Sent to die.
@3:42 “We shall help Iraq move towards democracy.. and put the money from IRAQI OIL in a UN trust fund.”
Blair you got blood on your hands
how wrong,,,,,sit back and watch the Kurdish people being murdered with mustard gas,,,wake up you fool
@@marcomarco760How wrong sit back and watch the Iranians being murdered with chemical weapons... wake up fool
Now Covid 19
I recall watching this live in a pub in London and shouted at the screen calling him a *fucking war criminal" or words to that effect. I was howled at by some of the punters inside the pub at the time. How the easily brainwashed must be feeling about it now
Brainwashed as you are, lets chat about the Kurdish woman and children who were murdered with the use of mustard gas then dumped into a mass graves but hey ho he's a war criminal, get your facts together before you comment
@@marcomarco760Lol you people suddenly care now about gassed women and children, but you didn't care about it when you supplied Saddam with gas and he used it against Iranian women and children
WAR MONGER.
yes and this war monger stopped the gasing of Kurdish woman and children with mustard gas,search your facts before posting crap
@@marcomarco760You're brainwashed and a danger supporting criminals like Blair, there's no difference between Bush, Blair and Saddam, all are cold-blooded killers, but Bush and Blair did it in the name of freedom and democracy
War criminal
There was no weapons of mass destruction you was wrong and should have paid the consequences
Mustard gas? which was used to kill thousands of Kurdish people
@@marcomarco760Supplied to him by the West, also Bush himself admitted there was no WMDs
Another war criminal
Tony the Tiger 🐅 help clean Uncle Sam boots 👢 shame on you Toby the Tiger
#Blair4Prison
No.
@@ciaranmarsh255 yes
@@louisbeerreviews8964 no.
@@ciaranmarsh255
Yes.
@@kayvan671 No.
Yeah, and then March 11 and July 7 happened lol 😂😂
Tony Blair was some Prime Minister and good ally of the USA
The war was shameful
Fuku
He wasn't an ally lol, he was a puppet queen to his husband Bush
Sanction 🇺🇸🇬🇧
All you did was send them by boat to invade us in the uk
3:47 crudddddd biggest lie of the millenium🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But you had no post Saddam plan Mr Blair. This is why your chosen ones to lead the new Iraq, pachachi and chalabi, were pushed out by the Iran backed islamist groups who were waiting for their moment to rule. I feel sorry for Iraqis they deserve better from the so called civilized world who think they are so organized and strategised.
It was the right choice
Uneducated nationalist lma
@@quantum8626
Its kinda sad that such people even exist.
@@kayvan671 I am Iranian And I know saddam used chemical weapons to kill Iranian. Mr Blair made the right decision . But propaganda say he is a monster.
@@amirmohammadhonarvar1039
Long live the shah of Persia!
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
The only legitimite ruler of Iran.
He was good to his people but the Propaganda is still lying about him.
Your parents having you was the wrong choice
War criminal
War criminal