A week in politics Why Tony Blair has to find three different lines on Iraq

From: The Scotsman | Date: September 2, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

SELDOM in the field of spin has so much importance been placed on the search for so few words. Tony Blair urgently needs a new line on Iraq - a sentence, nothing more. He must devote this week to finding one.

Since his return from holiday last week, the Prime Minister has been hopelessly behind events. In comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler, Donald Rumsfeld, US Defence Secretary, has made his intentions clear.

Mr Blair has been watching the speeches on television, flummoxed. The best he has been able to say in response is that "doing nothing is not an option" on Saddam.

This phrase has become ...

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