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Name: Tony Blair

Title: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Position: PRO to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"

Reasoning:

"I have come to the conclusion after much reluctance that the greater danger to the UN is inaction: that to pass resolution 1441 and then refuse to enforce it would do the most deadly damage to the UN's future strength, confirming it as an instrument of diplomacy but not of action, forcing nations down the very unilateralist path we wish to avoid."

Address to the House of Commons
March 18, 2003
Credibility
Ranking:		  Experts
PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Consulate Generals, heads of government, Cabinet-level positions, military generals/admirals, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the U.S.- Iraq conflict.

Involvement:
  • 2007 - Appointed as a Middle East envoy on behalf of the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia (the Quartet)
  • 1997-2007 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (U.K.)
  • 1994-2007 - Leader of the Labour Party, U.K.
  • 1992 - Elected to Shadow Home Secretary
  • 1988 - Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Shadow Cabinet
  • 1984 - Promoted to the shadow Treasury front bench
  • 1983-2007 - Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield

Education: Law Degree, St. John's College, Oxford, 1975

Affiliations/
Honors:
  • 1994- present - Member, Privy Council

Contact Info:
Phone: None listed     Fax: None listed
E-Mail:   info@tonyblairoffice.org
Web Site: www.tonyblairoffice.org

Other: Select Publications:
  • New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004
  • "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government," (Foreword), U.K. Government Dossier, Diane Pub Co, 2003
  • "Britain's Green Agenda," The Futurist, July 1, 2001
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